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CFD-DEM investigation of viscous solid–liquid mixing: Impact of particle properties and mixer characteristics by Blais, Bruno, Bertrand, François

“…[Display omitted] •Solid–liquid mixing of viscous suspensions is investigated using CFD-DEM.•Fraction of suspended particles is measured numerically and…”
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Experimental Methods in Chemical Engineering: Discrete Element Method—DEM by Blais, Bruno, Vidal, David, Bertrand, Francois, Patience, Gregory S., Chaouki, Jamal

“…The discrete element method (DEM) is a time‐driven simulation technique based on a Lagrangian description of particle motion that predicts the flow of granular…”
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A semi-implicit immersed boundary method and its application to viscous mixing by Blais, Bruno, Lassaigne, Manon, Goniva, Christoph, Fradette, Louis, Bertrand, François

“…•A semi-implicit finite volume immersed boundary method based is developed.•It is parallel and compatible with unstructured meshes and dynamic mesh…”
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Citation analysis of scientific categories by Patience, Gregory S., Patience, Christian A., Blais, Bruno, Bertrand, Francois

“…Databases catalogue the corpus of research literature into scientific categories and report classes of bibliometric data such as the number of citations to…”
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CFD-DEM Modeling of Dense Sub-Aerial and Submerged Granular Collapses by Shademani, Maryam, Blais, Bruno, Shakibaeinia, Ahmad

“…Sub-aerial (dry) and submerged dense granular collapses are studied by means of a three-phase unresolved computational fluid dynamics-discrete element method…”
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Characterization of the acoustic cavitation in ionic liquids in a horn-type ultrasound reactor by Schieppati, Dalma, Mohan, Mood, Blais, Bruno, Fattahi, Kobra, Patience, Gregory S., Simmons, Blake A., Singh, Seema, Boffito, Daria C.

“…•Characterization of acoustic cavitation in twelve ionic liquids.•The model considers the presence of bubbles and acoustic impedance mismatch.•Ionic liquids…”
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Lethe: An open-source parallel high-order adaptative CFD solver for incompressible flows by Blais, Bruno, Barbeau, Lucka, Bibeau, Valérie, Gauvin, Simon, Geitani, Toni El, Golshan, Shahab, Kamble, Rajeshwari, Mirakhori, Ghazaleh, Chaouki, Jamal

“…High-order Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) methods have the potential to deliver higher accuracy at lower computational cost than conventional second-order…”
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Corrigendum to “Citation analysis of scientific categories” [Heliyon 3 (5) (May 2017) e00300] by Patience, Gregory S., Patience, Christian A., Blais, Bruno, Bertrand, Francois

“…[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2017.e00300.]…”
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Quadrature-Centered Averaging Scheme for Accurate and Continuous Void Fraction Calculation in Computational Fluid Dynamics–Discrete Element Method Simulations by El Geitani, Toni, Blais, Bruno

“…We propose a novel method to calculate the local void fraction in solid–fluid Euler–Lagrange models in an attempt to better predict the behavior of multiphase…”
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Solid-liquid rotary kilns: An experimental and CFD-DEM study by El Geitani, Toni, Blais, Bruno

“…Experiments for the validation of unresolved CFD-DEM software for solid–liquid flows are often expensive, time consuming and generally provide little insight…”
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Toward High-Order CFD-DEM: Development and Validation by El Geitani, Toni, Golshan, Shahab, Blais, Bruno

“…CFD-DEM is used to simulate solid–fluid systems. DEM models the motion of discrete particles while CFD models the dynamics of the fluid phase. Coupling both…”
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Insights into granular mixing in vertical ribbon mixers by Golshan, Shahab, Blais, Bruno

“…In this research, granular mixing in vertical ribbon mixers was studied by means of discrete element method (DEM) simulations. Time‐averaged velocity…”
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Development and validation of a stabilized immersed boundary CFD model for freezing and melting with natural convection by Blais, Bruno, Ilinca, Florin

“…•A novel stabilized immersed boundary method for melting and freezing is proposed.•The method is robust and handles phase transition in small temperature…”
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Review and implementation of CFD-DEM applied to chemical process systems by Golshan, Shahab, Sotudeh-Gharebagh, Rahmat, Zarghami, Reza, Mostoufi, Navid, Blais, Bruno, Kuipers, J.A.M.

“…•CFD-DEM formulation, including heat and mass transfer and long-range forces is described.•Implementation of CFD-DEM in simulation of different processes is…”
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An extensive study of shear thinning flow around a spherical particle for power-law and Carreau fluids by Daunais, Carole-Anne, Barbeau, Lucka, Blais, Bruno

“…We develop and implement a high-order finite element formulation to solve incompressible shear thinning flows using power-law and Carreau rheology models. We…”
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Perspectives on the process intensification of CO2 capture and utilization by Pahija, Ergys, Golshan, Shahab, Blais, Bruno, Boffito, Daria Camilla

“…•Process Intensification (PI) refers to innovative reactor design.•PI accelerates the commercialization of CO2 capture and utilization technologies.•We review…”
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Fluidized bed hydrodynamic modeling of CO 2 in syngas: Distorted RTD curves due to adsorption on FCC by Bérard, Ariane, Blais, Bruno, Patience, Gregory S.

“…Abstract Bubbles rising through fluidized beds at velocities several times superficial velocities contribute to solids backmixing. In micro‐fluidized beds, the…”
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A high‐order stabilized solver for the volume averaged Navier‐Stokes equations by Geitani, Toni El, Golshan, Shahab, Blais, Bruno

“…The volume‐averaged Navier‐Stokes equations are used to study fluid flow in the presence of fixed or moving solids such as packed or fluidized beds. We develop…”
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Which impeller should be chosen for efficient solid–liquid mixing in the laminar and transitional regime? by Delacroix, Bastien, Fradette, Louis, Bertrand, François, Blais, Bruno

“…The vast majority of solid–liquid mixing studies have focused on high Reynolds number applications with configurations and impeller geometries adapted to this…”
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CFD-DEM simulations of early turbulent solid–liquid mixing: Prediction of suspension curve and just-suspended speed by Blais, Bruno, Bertrand, Olivier, Fradette, Louis, Bertrand, François

“…•Solid–liquid mixing in early turbulent regime is investigated using CFD-DEM.•Two new approaches to measure the fraction of suspended particles are…”
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