Particle Finite Element Method

The aim of this book is to advance the field of granular and multi-body studies while giving readers a more thorough understanding of the discrete element method (DEM). Recommended for researchers and graduate students who deal with particle models in areas such as fluid dynamics, multi-body engineering, finite-element methods, the geosciences, and multi-scale physics.

This book contains 11 chapters written by relevant scientists in the field of particle-based methods and their applications in engineering and applied sciences. The chapters cover most particle-based techniques used in practice including the discrete element method, the smooth particle hydrodynamic method and the particle finite element method.

The proceedings contain a selection of refereed contributions and are meant to serve as a source of reference for all those interested in the state of the art in computational fluid dynamics.

The 93 revised full papers presented together with 5 plenary and invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on multilevel and multiscale preconditioning methods multilevel and multiscale methods for industrial applications, environmental modeling, control and uncertain systems, application of metaheuristics to large scale problems, monte carlo: methods, applications, distributed computing, grid and scientific and engineering applications, reliable numerical methods for differential equations, novel applications of optimization ideas to the numerical Solution of PDEs, and contributed talks.