Training in Upscaling particle Systems: Advancing Industry across Length-scales

TUSAIL is an Innovative Training Network funded by Horizon 2020 which comprises 16 academic and industrial partners in total, led by the University of Edinburgh. TUSAIL stands for “Training in Upscaling particle Systems: Advancing Industry across Length-scales”. Over the course of four years, TUSAIL will train 15 early-career researchers (ESRs) through a combination of PhD research, scientific training and industrial secondments. The reliable, validated simulation methodologies and tools developed in TUSAIL will be disseminated to industry, enabling quantitative predictions of large industrial processes which will be of value for design, operation and optimisation.

Continuum–DEM modelling of fluid–solid transition in weakly compacted systems of polydisperse particles of varying shapes

CFD–DEM and PBM simulation of fluidized bed opposed jet mills for particle micronization

Fundamental development of structure and rotation-related coarse graining for micro-polar continuum theories

Multiscale models for reconstitution of compacted powders

Mechanistic and predictive population balance models for particle comminution size reduction mill

DEM–CFD and PBM for dynamic process simulation of fluidized bed agglomeration

Time-extrapolation of continuum Two Fluid Model (TFM) simulations of spout fluidized beds

Meso-scale description of wet powders for industrial-scale modelling

Multi-scale modelling of particle agglomeration through sintering

Meso-scale particles for quantitative prediction of powder transfer by pneumatic conveying

Discrete particle zoom in continuum Two Fluid Model (TFM) simulations of spout fluidized beds

Mixed discrete–continuum modelling of dense granular flow

Meso-scale DEM for flowability assessment of weakly consolidated fine powders in industry

DEM (meso-)particle property calibration with powder rheometry and other flow characterization techniques

DEM and CFD–DEM meso-particle modelling of mixing processes