The pharmaceutical industry handles large volumes of granular materials such as powder blends for tablet production and filled capsules everyday (1, 2). Slight changes in ingredient properties or ...

Discrete Element Modelling (DEM) has emerged as a powerful computational framework for representing geological materials as assemblies of discrete particles or blocks, capturing the initiation and ...

Based on presentation to IEEE's 2010 Winter Simulation Conference, Baltimore, Dec. 5-8, 2010. A discrete-event simulation technique, combined with optimization tools, permits easy management of ...