Category : Blog Pharmaceutical and Biotech

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 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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nobel-prize
03 Oct 2018 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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12 Jul 2017 Pharmaceutical and Biotech Simulation Technology

Why have you not improved the performance of pharmaceutical processing equipment yet?

In the pharmaceutical industry, special types of processing equipment are designed to blend, mix, dry, compact, and coat the various materials that go into making the pills, tablets, powders and other products that are produced...

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