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A CFD-DEM-Wear Coupling Method for Stone Chip Resistance of Automotive Coatings with a Rigid Connection Particle Method for Non-Spherical Particles

Jiacheng Qian¹, Chenqi Zou¹, Mengyan Zang^1,*, Shunhua Chen^2,3,*, Makoto Tsubokura⁴

1 School of Mechanical & Automotive Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510641, China
2 School of Marine Engineering and Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai, 510275, China
3 Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), Zhuhai, 528315, China
4 RIKEN Center for Computational Science, Kobe, 650-0047, Japan

* Corresponding Authors: Mengyan Zang. Email: ; Shunhua Chen. Email: