Going down to the microscale: new perspectives

F. Nicot

Videos of Plenary Lectures presented at the IV International Conference on Particle-Based Methods. Fundamentals and Applications (PARTICLES 2015).

Roughly speaking, granular media exhibit three basic scales: the specimen scale, the contact scale, and an intermediate scale made up of a set of adjoining particles. In this

Effect of Particle Shape in Simulation of Particle Flows by Distinct Element Method

M. Ghadiri, C. Hare, M. Pasha

Videos of Plenary Lectures presented at the IV International Conference on Particle-Based Methods. Fundamentals and Applications (PARTICLES 2015).

Numerical simulations of granular flows based on the Distinct Element Method (DEM) commonly use spherical particles for ease of contact mechanics calculations and for having

A new reproducing kernel formulation with embedded kernel stability for modeling extreme events

J. Chen

Videos of Plenary Lectures presented at the IV International Conference on Particle-Based Methods. Fundamentals and Applications (PARTICLES 2015).

Reproducing Kernel Particle Method (RKPM) has been applied to many large deformation problems. RKPM relies on polynomial reproducing conditions to yield desired accuracy and

Coarse-Grained Atomistics Via Meshless and Mesh-Based Quasicontinuum Techniques

D. Kochmann

Videos of Plenary Lectures presented at the IV International Conference on Particle-Based Methods. Fundamentals and Applications (PARTICLES 2015).

Spatial coarse-graining techniques are powerful methods to overcome the computational limits of molecular dynamics. In order to extend atomistic simulations of crystalline