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Simulation of the Slow Drag of a Cylinder through a Confined Pressurized Bed of Dumbbell and Elliptically Cylindrical Granules Using the Discrete Element Method

Fuping Zhou¹, Suresh G. Advani², Eric D. Wetzel³

1 ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company, 3120 Buffalo Speedway, Houston, Texas, 77098
2 Corresponding Author: Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, 19716, USA. Tel: 1-302-831-8975; fax: 1-302-831-3619; Email: advani@udel.edu
3 Army Research Laboratory, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland 21005