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01 Oct 2020 Blog Pharmaceutical and Biotech

Predicting powder compression with simulation that considers particle density distribution

The compression process involves very complex granularity with different stressors. A hybrid simulation model makes the best use of DEM and FEA to predict powder compression considering particle density distribution.

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Prediction of drug particle transport in a dry powder inhaler using Rocky DEM
29 Nov 2019 Blog Pharmaceutical and Biotech

Prediction of drug particle transport in a dry powder inhaler using Rocky DEM

See how one-way coupled CFD-DEM simulation predicts drug particle dynamics in a DPI by describing physical and chemical mechanisms of the drug transport and interactions, noninvasively.

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07 Oct 2019 Blog Pharmaceutical and Biotech

Multiphysics modeling adds to understanding fine-particle transport in human airways

Rocky DEM multiphysics DEM-CFD calculations provided accurate and fast answers to the drug particle transport, with fluid flow and particle motion modeled through integration between Rocky and ANSYS Fluent.

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07 May 2019 Blog Pharmaceutical and Biotech

Why apply DEM simulations to the pharmaceutical development process?

With today’s increasingly complex processes, better-structured products, and strong regulation on the part of national governments, the product approval process in the pharma industry presents particularities and challenges that generate many questions... Read more.

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03 Oct 2018 Blog Pharmaceutical and Biotech

Nobel Chemistry Award winners 2018

Evolution’s helpful traits don’t appear by design — they’re random variations. Nobel winners Frances Arnold, George Smith and Gregory Winter directed the evolution of biological molecules, accelerating it to a level much faster than what happens in... Continue.

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10 Aug 2018 Blog Pharmaceutical and Biotech Simulation Technology

Modeling the particle shapes and breakage with Rocky DEM

Particulate matter is all around us: in food products, building materials, plastics, chemicals, pharmaceutical powders, and even consumer products. Because of their ubiquity, particulate materials contribute significantly to the economy: They make up a...

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