A GPGPU implementation of the discrete element method applied to modeling the dynamic particulate environment inside a tumbling mill

Includes bibliographical references. === Tumbling mills have been an integral part of the comminution circuit for more than a century. With the advent of better computing, discrete element modeling (DEM) has taken on the challenge to model the dynamic particulate environment inside these devices in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hromnik, Marius
Other Authors: Govender, Indresan
Format: Dissertation
Language:English
Published: University of Cape Town 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11427/9813