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.

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

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

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

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

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

Multi-scale modelling of particle agglomeration through sintering

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

Mixed discrete–continuum modelling of dense granular flow

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

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

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

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

Multiscale models for reconstitution of compacted powders

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

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