Stefano Utili, Professor of Geotechnical Engineering at Newcastle University came along to Septembers NUFEB Science meeting to present his current work.
He discussed benchmarks employed to validate Discrete Element Method (DEM) Computational Fluid Dynamics analyses. He highlighted work he has done looking at landslide dynamics, using these methods.
In the second part of the seminar Stefanos presented contact mechanical laws for the DEM analyses of particles exhibiting adhesion. Calibration of the DEM contact law parameters based on experimental measurements of particle surface energy, or of a particle adhesive coating, was illustrated. How this approach can be applied to bacteria covered by EPS was discussed, an area which is of great interest to the NUFEB team.
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