Discrete-element Modeling of Granular Materials

Farhang Radjaï is a CNRS Research Director at the Mechanics and Civil Engineering Laboratory (LMGC) at the University of Montpellier 2. His research focus is on granular physics to which he contributed by the numerical modeling and discovery of the bimodal structure of force chains.Frédéric Dubois is a Research Engineer at the Mechanics and Civil Engineering Laboratory (LMGC) at the University of Montpellier 2, France. He is an expert in the field of modeling complex mechanical systems in interaction (contact, friction, adhesion, etc.).

• 1. Molecular Dynamics Method, Sean McNamara 2. Contact Dynamics Method, Michel Jean3. Quasi-Static Methods, Jean-Noël Roux and Gaël Combe4. Event-driven Method, Sean McNamara5. Particle Assembling Methods, Charles Voivret, Farhang Radjaï and Jean-Yves Delenne6. Construction of Granular Assemblies Under Static Loading, Gaël Combe and Jean-Noël Roux7. Periodic Boundary Conditions, Farhang Radjaï and Charles Voivret8. Dimensional Analysis and Control Parameters, Jean-Noël Roux and François Chevoir9. Numerical Modeling of Granular Media Composed of PolyhedralParticles, Frédéric Dubois10. Numerical Modeling of Cohesive Interactions, Jean-Yves Delenne, Vincent Topin, Vincent Richefeu and Farhang Radjaï11. Numerical Modeling of Fluid–Grain Interactions, Bertrand Maury and Aline Lefebvre-Lepot12. Close Interaction of Immersed Grains, Bertrand Maury and Aline Lefebvre-Lepot13. Numerical Modeling of Heat Production and Transmission, Mathieu Renouf and Yves Berthier14. Discrete Models of Wet Granular Media, Bruno Chareyre and Luc Scholtès15. Discrete Models of Structures in Geomaterials, Frédéric Donzé, Pascal Villard, and Dominique Daudon