Computational Particle Mechanics - Top 10 Downloaded Articles 2023

We want to thank the authors of our most-downloaded articles in 2023, and highlight to our readers some of the most impactful research to have been published in the journal. We hope that you will find the articles interesting.

A unified and modular coupling of particle methods with fem for civil engineering problems (this opens in a new tab), by Carlos Eulogio Flores et al.

Displacement ventilation to avoid COVID-19 transmission through offices (this opens in a new tab), by Omar Osman, Mervat Madi, Efstratios L. Ntantis, Karim Y. Kabalan

Coupling the discrete element method and solid state diffusion equations for modeling of metallic powders sintering (this opens in a new tab), by V. Ivannikov, F. Thomsen, T. Ebel,R. Willumeit–Römer 

An entropy-stable updated reference Lagrangian smoothed particle hydrodynamics algorithm for thermo-elasticity and thermo-visco-plasticity (this opens in a new tab), by Chun Hean Lee et al.

A Voronoi strain-based method for granular materials and continua (this opens in a new tab), by Göran Frenning 

Modeling cell clusters and their near-wall dynamics in shear flow (this opens in a new tab), by Iveta Jančigová, Alžbeta Bohiniková, Michal Mulík, Ivan Cimrák 

Assessment and validation of SPH modeling for nano-indentation (this opens in a new tab), by Hao Shen, Emmanuel Brousseau, Sivakumar Kulasegaram

Quantitative evaluation of SPH in TIG spot welding (this opens in a new tab), by Stefan Rhys Jeske et al.

Reversible inter-particle bonding in SPH for improved simulation of friction stir welding (this opens in a new tab), by Elizaveta Shishova, Florian Panzer, Martin Werz, Peter Eberhard

Applying surface tension as pressure boundary condition in free surface flow analysis by moving particle simulation method (this opens in a new tab), by Hiroki Tsujimura, Kenichi Kubota, Tetsuya Sato