Simulation Using the Discrete Element Method (DEM) in the Minerals Industry, Volume II
A special issue of Minerals (ISSN 2075-163X). This special issue belongs to the section "Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 January 2024) | Viewed by 2614
Special Issue Editors
Interests: comminution; discrete element method; modeling and simulation; classification; numerical methods; materials handling; mineral processing
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Interests: mineral processing; modeling; simulation; comminution; physical concentration; coal preparation; discrete element method; degradation during handling; particle breakage
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The discrete element method (DEM) has proved to be a powerful tool that has allowed and has been opening the black box of operations and mechanisms in several processes in the minerals industry. As this industry deals mostly with particles, DEM can be used with different approaches ranging from machine- or process-focused to particle scale applications, where each of them presents individual challenges. Some of DEM’s applications include simulation of granular materials handling, classification, comminution, agglomeration, and concentration. DEM also can be applied as a coupled tool to other numerical simulation techniques, such as CFD, SPH, MBP, MBD, and FEM.
This Special Issue of Minerals aims to gather the most recent research and application advances using DEM, and its coupled techniques, with direct interest in the minerals industry. We would like to invite researchers in this field to submit your research papers, review papers, and communications related to DEM in the minerals industry.
Prof. Dr. Rodrigo Magalhães de Carvalho
Prof. Dr. Luís Marcelo M. Tavares
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- discrete element method
- modeling and simulation
- comminution
- materials handling
- classification
- mineral processing
- agglomeration
- concentration
- beneficiation
- crushing
- grinding
