Validation of DEM

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8th European Congress of Chemical Engineering
(ECCE-8)
Berlin, Germany
2011-09-25 - 2011-09-29

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Working Party on Mechanics of Particulate Solids

Members

	Prof. Massimo Poletto (Italy) Massimo Poletto is associate professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Salerno. His current research activity is related to bulk solids handling and fluidisation. Prof. Poletto has been a delegate to the working party since 2004. Prof. Massimo Poletto has been elected as the new chairman of the Working Party for the period 2008-2010. :
	Lyn Bates (United Kingdom) AJAX Equipment Lyn Bates has been a delegate to the working party for over 20 years. He is Managing Director of Ajax Equipment Ltd, a company specialising is the design and manufacture of equipment for solids handling. He is member and past chairman of the I.Mech.E, Bulk Materials Handling Committee, on the I.Chem.E, Particulate Solids Subject Group and the technical committee of SHAPA, (Solids Handling and Processing Association), served on various BSI and ASTM committees and is Past President of the Manchester Association of Engineers. Lyn has authored more than 100 papers at Conferences and Seminars in UK, Ireland, USA, France, Germany, Italy, Holland, Belgium, Czechoslowakai, Norway, Australia and China. His books, - on the 'Design, Selection and Application of Screw Feeders' is published by I. Mech.E. His 'User guide to Segregation' and 'Glossary of Terms in Powder and Bulk Technology' are published by The British Materials Handling Board, of which he in now a director. He has written many guidance documents on solids handling, powder testing for flow and other technical articles for his company, the I.Mech.E and trade organisations. He is a also moderator on a 'Help' Forum for the www.bulk-online.com web site. In 2000 he was presented with the 'I.Mech.E.- Solids Handling Award for: - 'Professional Excellence in the Industry'. :
	Dr. ir Renee Boerefijn (The Netherlands) PURAC Biochem B.V. :
	Prof. Paolo Canu (Italy) Prof. Canu is active in research and teaching at the University of Padova, Italy. His interest in the solid particulate systems concentrates on dense granular flows, with application to mixing, flowability, discharge processes, sampling and on-line characterization.Prof. Canu is a delegate to the working party since 2004. : "Canu, Paolo"
	Dr. Thierry Destoop (France) NEU International Process Dr. Destoop has been a delegate to the working party since March 2008. He is Technical Manager of NEU International Process, the pneumatic conveying specialist based in Lille, France. He joined the NEU Group in 1990, two years after receiving his PhD from the University of Lille for a thesis on CAD for reciprocating compressors. He has presented over 20 papers at conferences worldwide and has recently completed a four year term as the president of the continuous handling section of the FEM (European federation of materials handling) :
	Prof. Gisle Enstad (Norway) Telemark Technological Research and Development Centre, tel tek Prof. Enstad has been a delegate to the working party since 1983. He currently serves as a member of the international advisory board for "Chemical Engineering Research and Design", the EFCE's official European journal. :
	Dr.-Ing. Hermann J. Feise (Germany) Dr. Hermann Feise serves as an solids processing expert for BASF in Ludwigshafen, Germany. He is currently leading the Particle Formulation and Handling group in BASF Process Engineering.Dr. Feise has been a delegate to the working party since 2001. In 2002 he took over the role of Chairman for the working party. In 2005 he was re-elected chairman of the working party for the perion 2005-2008. Dr. Hermann Feise has been elected Scientific Vice-President of the EFCE for the period 2008-2009, and re-elected for a second term of office (2010-2011). :
	Prof. M.B. Generalov (Russia) Moscow State Academy of Chemical Engineering : none
	Prof. Wilhelm Höflinger (Austria) Technische Universität Wien :
	Prof. Jean Luc Ilari (France) E.N.I.T.I.A.A. (National Food Science and Enginneringstate School) He graduates in biological engineering 1969, phD in Nutrition 1973, professor food technology 1974 (Nantes), H.D.R. particulate Engineering 1990 ( Nantes Univ.). He specialised his research on powders from 1981. Prof. Ilari has been guest in the working party from 1985, and a University delegate to the working party since 2000. :
	Prof. Anatoly V. Katalymov (Russia) Prof. Anatoly Katalymov serves as leading specialist in bulk solids processing storage at Moscow State Universityof Environmental Engineering. He is currently Chair Holder in natural fuels processing at MSUEE.Prof. Katalymov has been a delegate to the working party since 1993. :
	Dr. Per-Gunnar Leversen (Norway) Norwegian Talc AS :
	Dr. rer. -nat. Stefan Luding (The Netherlands) Dr. Luding is the Professor for particle technology at the University of Twente (NL). His main research interests are: Numerical and theoretical modelling of many particle systems, Micro-macro strategies for granular systems, Theoretical methods in kinetic theory, Micropolar continuum theory (Cosserat theory), Material properties of granular systems, Energy non-equipartition in dissipative systems, Transport processes and spin-order in granular media, Shocks in dense and dissipative gases, The dynamics of membranes and networks, Interstellar dust-clouds and planetary rings. Dr. Luding has been a delegate to the WPMPS since 2005. http://www2.msm.ctw.utwente.nl/sluding/ :
	Dr. Jan Novosad (Czech Republic) Czech Society of Chemical Engineering Dr. Novosad has been a delegate to the working party since 1971. Until 2002 he served as the chairman of the working party when he was elected as Honorary Chairman. :
	Dr. Bert Tijskens (Belgium) Dr. Tijskens works as a research assistant at the Laboratory for Agricultural Machinery and Processing of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. His research interests are: Mathematical Modelling and Scientific Computing; Continuum Mechanics - Large Deformations - Nonlinear Materials - Biomaterials - Solid-Fluid interaction - Contact/impact - Moving Boundaries; Discrete Element Modelling - Finite Element Modelling; Software Engineering of Scientific and Engineering Software - C++ - Python; Nonlinear PDE and ODE Problems - Optimisation - Automatic Differentation. Dr. Tijskens has been a delegate to the WPMPS since 2005. http://www.agr.kuleuven.ac.be/aee/amc/staff/bertt/bert.htm :
	PROF. JUERGEN TOMAS (Germany) Otto-von-Guerocke-University Magdeburg Prof. Tomas has been a delegate to the Working Party since May 2010. :
	Prof. Ugur Tüzün (United Kingdom) University of Surrey Prof. Tüzün has been a delegate to the working party since 1996. He heads a large research group in the School of Engineering in Particulate and Multiphase Mechanics and is one of the founding members of the UniS Materials Institute. Prof. Tüzün is a Fellow of the UK Inst. of Chemical Engineers and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is the Director of Research of the School of Engineering, University of Surrey. :
	Dr. Harald Wilms (Germany) Zeppelin Silo- und Apparatetechnik Dr. Wilms has been a delegate to the working party since 1983. :
	Prof. J. Zegzulka (Czech Republic) VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Laboratory of Bulk Materials. He is particularly interested in a practical measurement and bulk solid property modelling as well as flow parameter measurement in motion and inactive. He is focused in bulk solid processing and handling. It is including flow patterns, pressure distribution, flow dynamics, etc. Prof. Zegzulka has been a delegate to the working party since 2003. :

	Prof. Irina Sielamowicz (Poland) Technical University of Bialystok :
	Prof. Peter C. Arnold (Australia) University of Wollongong Prof. Arnold has been a permanently invited guest to the working party since 1990. :
	Dr. John W. Carson (USA) Dr. Carson leads the renown engineering consulting company of Jenike and Johanson in Tyngsboro, Massachusetts, founded by and named after the founding father of modern silo technology, Dr. Andrew Jenike. Dr. Carson has been named a permanently invited guest to the working party in 2007. :
	Prof. Rolf K. Eckhoff (Norway) University of Bergen Professor Eckhoff joined the working party as the second Norwegian member (the first was the late Mr. W. Bruff) in 1971, when he was working at the Chr. Michelsen Institute, Bergen, Norway.In 1985 he left over his membership to his co-workers Dr. Enstad and Dr. Leversen, and was at the same time given the status of 'permanently invited guest' to the working party. From 1996 he has been professor of process safety technology at University of Bergen. :
	Prof. Rimantas Kacianauskas (Lithuania) Vilnius Gediminas Technical University :
	Prof. Alan W. Roberts (Australia) University of Newcastle :
	Prof. Jörg Schwedes (Germany) TU Braunschweig Prof. Schwedes has been with the Working Party since the early beginning. Since 2001 he is permanently invited guest. :

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