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Effect of Macroscopic Surface Heterogeneities on an Advancing Contact Line
Solomon S. Melides, Dominic Vella, Marco Ramaioli
The shape of a liquid-air interface advancing on a heterogeneous surface was studied experimentally, together with the force induced by the pinning of the contact line to surface d…
A soft robotic tongue to develop solutions to manage swallowing disorders
Marco Marconati, Silvia Pani, Jan Engmann +2
The development of novel texture adaptations for the management of swallowing disorders could be accelerated if reliable in vitro tests were made available. This study addresses so…
The role of extensional rheology in the oral phase of swallowing: an in vitro study
Marco Marconati, Marco Ramaioli
Swallowing disorders deteriorate significantly the quality of life and can be lifethreatening. Texture modification using shear thinning food thickeners have proven effective in th…
Mixing Grains with Different Elongation in a Rotating Drums
Claudia Piacenza, Marco Marconati, Colin Hare +2
Mixing grains with different properties is a remarkably challenging process, relevant to many industrial applications. Rotating drums have been used extensively as model systems to…
In vitro and sensory tests to design easy-to-swallow multi-particulate formulations
Marco Marconati, Felipe Lopez, Catherine Tuleu +2
Flexible dosing and ease of swallowing are key factors when designing oral drug delivery systems for paediatric and geriatric populations. Multi-particulate oral dosage forms can o…
New trends in mechanistic transdermal drug delivery modelling: Towards an accurate description of skin microstructure
Daniel Sebastia-Saez, Adam Burbidge, Jan Engmann +1
Interest for in silico modelling of the absorption of xenobiotics into the skin has been growing in the last years, owing to their lower cost compared to experimental alternatives,…
Tuning the bulk properties of bidisperse granular mixtures by small amount of fines
Nishant Kumar, Vanessa Magnanimo, Marco Ramaioli +1
We study the bulk properties of isotropic bidisperse granular mixtures using discrete element simulations. The focus is on the influence of the size (radius) ratio of the two const…
Experiments and Discrete Element Simulation of the Dosing of Cohesive Powders in a Simplified Geometry
Olukayode I. Imole, Dinant Krijgsman, Thomas Weinhart +4
We perform experiments and discrete element simulations on the dosing of cohesive granular materials in a simplified geometry. The setup is a simplified canister box where the powd…
Slow relaxation behavior of cohesive powders
Olukayode I. Imole, Maria Paulick, Martin Morgeneyer +5
We present findings from uniaxial (oedometric) compression tests on two cohesive industrially relevant granular materials (cocoa and limestone powder). Experimental results are pre…
Recent advances in the simulation of particle-laden flows
Jens Harting, Stefan Frijters, Marco Ramaioli +3
A substantial number of algorithms exists for the simulation of moving particles suspended in fluids. However, finding the best method to address a particular physical problem is o…
Fluid-particle flow and validation using two-way-coupled mesoscale SPH-DEM
Martin Robinson, Stefan Luding, Marco Ramaioli
First, a meshless simulation method is presented for multiphase fluid-particle flows with a two-way coupled Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) for the fluid and the Discrete Ele…
Wicking in a powder
Pascal S. Raux, Héloise Cockenpot, Marco Ramaioli +2
We investigate the wicking in granular media by considering layers of grains at the surface of a liquid, and discuss the critical contact angle below which spontaneous impregnation…