Understanding the discrete element method : simulation of non-spherical particles for granular and multi-body systems / Hans-Georg Matuttis, the University of Electro-Communications, Japan, Jian Chen, Riken Advanced Institute for Computational Science, Japan.

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UNDERSTANDING THE DISCRETE ELEMENT METHOD SIMULATION OF NON-SPHERICAL PARTICLES FOR GRANULARAND MULTI-BODY SYSTEMS; Copright; Contents; Exercises; About the Authors; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; 1 Mechanics; 1.1 Degrees of freedom; 1.1.1 Particle mechanics and constraints; 1.1.2 From point particles to rigid bodies; 1.1.3 More context and terminology; 1.2 Dynamics of rectilinear degrees of freedom; 1.3 Dynamics of angular degrees of freedom; 1.3.1 Rotation in two dimensions; 1.3.2 Moment of inertia; 1.3.3 From two to three dimensions.

1.3.4 Rotation matrix in three dimensions1.3.5 Three-dimensional moments of inertia; 1.3.6 Space-fixed and body-fixed coordinate systems andequations of motion; 1.3.7 Problems with Euler angles; 1.3.8 Rotations represented using complex numbers; 1.3.9 Quaternions; 1.3.10 Derivation of quaternion dynamics; 1.4 The phase space; 1.4.1 Qualitative discussion of the time dependence of linear oscillations; 1.4.2 Resonance; 1.4.3 The flow in phase space; 1.5 Nonlinearities; 1.5.1 Harmonic balance; 1.5.2 Resonance in nonlinear systems; 1.5.3 Higher harmonics and frequency mixing.

1.5.4 The van der Pol oscillator1.6 From higher harmonics to chaos; 1.6.1 The bifurcation cascade; 1.6.2 The nonlinear frictional oscillator and Poincar ́e maps; 1.6.3 The route to chaos; 1.6.4 Boundary conditions and many-particle systems; 1.7 Stability and conservationlaws; 1.7.1 Stability in statics; 1.7.2 Stability in dynamics; 1.7.3 Stable axes of rotation around the principal axis; 1.7.4 Noether's theorem and conservation laws; 1.8 Further reading; Exercises; References; 2Numerical Integration of OrdinaryDifferential Equations; 2.1 Fundamentals of numerical analysis.

2.1.1 Floating point numbers2.1.2 Big-O notation; 2.1.3 Relative and absolute error; 2.1.4 Truncation error; 2.1.5 Local and global error; 2.1.6 Stability; 2.1.7 Stable integrators for unstable problems; 2.2 Numerical analysis for ordinary differential equations; 2.2.1 Variable notation and transformation of the order of adifferential equation; 2.2.2 Differences in the simulation of atoms and molecules, as compared to macroscopic particles; 2.2.3 Truncation error for solutions of ordinary differential equations; 2.2.4 Fundamental approaches; 2.2.5 Explicit Euler method.

2.2.6 Implicit Euler method2.3 Runge-Kutta methods; 2.3.1 Adaptive step-size control; 2.3.2 Dense output and event location; 2.3.3 Partitioned Runge-Kutta methods; 2.4 Symplectic methods; 2.4.1 The classical Verlet method; 2.4.2 Velocity-Verlet methods; 2.4.3 Higher-order velocity-Verlet methods; 2.4.4 Pseudo-symplectic methods; 2.4.5 Order, accuracy and energy conservation; 2.4.6 Backward error analysis; 2.4.7 Case study: the harmonic oscillator with andwithout viscous damping; 2.5 Stiff problems; 2.5.1 Evaluating computational costs; 2.5.2 Stiff solutions and error as noise.

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