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03 Oct 2018 Pharmaceutical

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.

01 Oct 2018 Blog Events

Place ANSYS Innovation Conference closest to you on your radar

ANSYS hosts major conferences around the world to bring clients together and strengthen networking among professionals from a wide range of backgrounds who share the desire to innovate using computer simulation...

10 Aug 2018 Blog Pharmaceutical 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...

01 Aug 2018 Blog Simulation Technology

More GPUs = faster processing with Rocky DEM

In the past, DEM simulations were restricted to relatively small problems that used, for example, only thousands of larger particles that were mostly spherical in shape. Recent improvements in both DEM codes and computational power have enabled closer-to-reality...

30 Jul 2018 Blog Simulation Technology

Modeling concrete silos for soy storage

In the worldwide agriculture industry, silos historically have been used to store harvested products. Many existing silos around the globe exhibit sub-optimal operating conditions, often due to the lack of knowledge about pressure distribution, flow and other...

06 Jun 2018 Blog Mining

Tavares Breakage Model in Rocky DEM

When simulating particulate systems using the discrete element method (DEM), particle breakage can occur. Sometimes the extent of this breakage is significant, such as in crushers and mills, which are designed to crush chunks of ore into smaller pieces...

13 Mar 2018 Blog Simulation Technology

SAG mill wear optimization using DEM simulation

Avoiding machine stoppage is a continual challenge in the mining industry, since downtime hours cost valuable production time and money. In the case of semi-autogenous (SAG) mills, these losses can be excessive. SAG mills are the technology of choice for reducing...

11 Dec 2017 Blog Mining

Rocky DEM: industry problems and solutions

There can be little doubt about the importance of bulk materials handling to the mining industry, and by extension more generally to the success of Australia’s processing industries on the global scale. In current market conditions, the focus is increasingly on...

19 Oct 2017 Blog Mining

Scaling and optimizing grinding performance

Grinding processes in large mills use a lot of energy, resulting in high operating costs. Researchers at the Colorado School of Mines, ranked as the top institution in the world for mineral and mining engineering, are using particle simulation to study grinding...

21 Sep 2017 Blog Mills and Crushers

Predicting particle breakage with contact-based Energy Spectra

Quite often DEM users are interested in predicting particle breakage, either to promote it (for example, spending less energy in comminution processes) or to avoid it (such as preventing tablet break-in coating processes...

15 Aug 2017 Blog Events Simulation Technology

Calibration of a Rocky DEM simulation with ANSYS optiSLang

Every numerical method relies on the accurate choice of models, solver settings, and material parameters in order to be able to mimic real-world behavior. This is not different for Discrete Elements Method (DEM) simulations, where the calibration of the material...

07 Aug 2017 Blog Vibrating Screens

Vibrating screen: evaluating efficiency by using the Discrete Element Method

Vibrating screens are equipment used to separate and transport granulated materials in various processes throughout the mining, agriculture, pharmaceutical, food,and chemical industries. Although vibrating screens have many applications, problems such as adhesion...

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Nobel Chemistry Award winners 2018

Place ANSYS Innovation Conference closest to you on your radar

Modeling the particle shapes and breakage with Rocky DEM

More GPUs = faster processing with Rocky DEM

Modeling concrete silos for soy storage

Tavares Breakage Model in Rocky DEM

SAG mill wear optimization using DEM simulation

Rocky DEM: industry problems and solutions

Scaling and optimizing grinding performance

Predicting particle breakage with contact-based Energy Spectra

Calibration of a Rocky DEM simulation with ANSYS optiSLang

Vibrating screen: evaluating efficiency by using the Discrete Element Method

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