Matuttis, Hans-Georg; Chen, Jian Understanding the discrete element method. Simulation of non-spherical particles for granular and multi-body systems. (English) Zbl 1381.70003 Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons (ISBN 978-1-118-56720-3/hbk; 978-1-118-56721-0/ebook). xxii, 456 p. (2014). Publisher’s description: Gives readers a more thorough understanding of DEM and equips researchers for independent work and an ability to judge methods related to simulation of polygonal particles.– Introduces DEM from the fundamental concepts (theoretical mechanics and solid state physics), with 2D and 3D simulation methods for polygonal particles.– Provides the fundamentals of coding discrete element method (DEM) requiring little advance knowledge of granular matter or numerical simulation.– Highlights the numerical tricks and pitfalls that are usually only realized after years of experience, with relevant simple experiments as applications.– Presents a logical approach starting with the mechanical and physical bases, followed by a description of the techniques and finally their applications.– Written by a key author presenting ideas on how to model the dynamics of angular particles using polygons and polyhedral.– Accompanying website includes MATLAB-Programs providing the simulation code for two-dimensional polygons.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. Cited in 3 Documents MSC: 70-01 Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to mechanics of particles and systems 70-08 Computational methods for problems pertaining to mechanics of particles and systems 70E55 Dynamics of multibody systems 74S05 Finite element methods applied to problems in solid mechanics Software:Matlab PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{H.-G. Matuttis} and \textit{J. Chen}, Understanding the discrete element method. Simulation of non-spherical particles for granular and multi-body systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley \& Sons (2014; Zbl 1381.70003) Full Text: DOI