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Simulation videos

Ribbon powder blenderDouble helical ribbon mixing hundreds of thousands of particles.

SAG mill pulp lifterCurved lifter channels discharging SPH slurry.

Bucket excavator forcesBucket forces, belt tension, motor torque and carryback.

Vibrating grizzly feederCoarse ore separated from undersize fines on a vibrating deck.

Stirred media millMulti-disc stirrer driving the media, coloured by impact energy.

Vertical auger with cohesionLiquid bridge forces and a live force histogram.

Coupled DEM-SPH millTwo way exchange between polyhedral rocks and SPH slurry.

Twin screw feederCo-rotating screws conveying a cohesive feed.

Tablet coating pan with sprayCoating mass per tablet in a rotating pan.

Renders

Full length SAG mill charge — **Full SAG mill**Axially graded charge, impact and shear energy on the lifters.

Coupled SPH slurry in full mill — **Two way SPH slurry mill**Rock impacts and slurry waves together.

Twin-screw extruder with SPH melt — **Twin screw extruder melt**Viscoelastic melt between intermeshing screws.

Thermal pellet bed melting — **Pellet bed melting**DEM pellets melting into a viscoelastic fluid.

Lath shaped polyhedral particles in a twin screw feeder — **Lath shaped particles**Polyhedra with a 1:25 aspect ratio in a twin screw feeder.

Continuous industrial mixer — **Continuous mixer**1:10 size ratio, multi-level contact detection.

**Worn solid lifters**Elements removed as they wear, no mesh deformation.

**Shear box force chains**Force chains carrying shear across a granular bed.

Cohesive needle shaped powder in a screw feeder hopper — **API needles in a screw feeder**Particle properties computed from the crystal.

Built for large-scale simulation

Direct GPU memory

The particle data lives in GPU memory, so whole pieces of equipment run on the GPU.

1:10+ size ratio search

Multi-level spatial partitioning resolves fine powder mixed with large rocks or tablets without memory explosion.

1:8+ elongated shapes

Native GPU spatial search prevents grid cell bloat for elongated fibres, needles and screw flights.

40+ peer-reviewed publications

The physics in Blaze is published in peer-reviewed journals in computational mechanics, chemical engineering and mineral processing.

Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (2026)A Combined Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics and Discrete Element Method Approach for Granular Collapse and Induced Wave Generation: Validations and Performance Test
Minerals Engineering (2026)Enabling grate discharge in large ball mills: Transient blockage and a restriction-based predictive framework
Powder Technology (2026)Influence of screw element geometry on particle flow in twin screw granulation: A DEM study
Powder Technology (2026)Integrated characterization, classification, and quasi-3D reconstruction of highly irregular particles using multiscale shape descriptors for predictive DEM flow simulation
Chemical Engineering Science (2025)DEM analysis of the impact of blade configuration on powder flow characteristics in a continuous blender
Mining (2025)Enhancing Particle Breakage and Energy Utilization in Ball Mills: An Integrated DEM and SPH Approach
Chemical Engineering Journal Advances (2025)Experimental and numerical study of non-spherical particles in moving bed heat exchangers
Computer Physics Communications (2024)Comparing open-source DEM frameworks for simulations of common bulk processes
Powder Technology (2024)Coupling SPH-DEM method for simulating the dynamic response of breakwater structures under severe free surface flow
Particuology (2024)DEM analysis of the influence of stirrer design on die filling with forced powder feeding
Physics of Fluids (2024)Simulating waves induced by landslide using coupled smoothed particle hydrodynamics and discrete element method: Evaluating the impact of irregular rock shapes
Ocean Engineering (2023)A resolved SPH-DEM coupling method for analysing the interaction of polyhedral granular materials with fluid
Chemical Engineering Science (2023)The influence of cohesion on polyhedral shapes during mixing in a drum
Chemical Engineering Science (2022)A DEM study on the thermal conduction of granular material in a rotating drum using polyhedral particles on GPUs
Powder Technology (2022)A meshless Lagrangian particle-based porosity formulation for under-resolved generalised finite difference-DEM coupling in fluidised beds
Particuology (2022)GPU-enhanced DEM analysis of flow behaviour of irregularly shaped particles in a full-scale twin screw granulator
Powder Technology (2022)Investigation of granular dynamics in a continuous blender using the GPU-enhanced discrete element method
International Journal of Pharmaceutics (2022)Numerical analysis of die filling with a forced feeder using GPU-enhanced discrete element methods
KONA Powder and Particle Journal (2022)Verification of Polyhedral DEM with Laboratory Grinding Mill Experiments
Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements (2021)Boundary condition enforcement for renormalised weakly compressible meshless Lagrangian methods
Powder Technology (2021)DEM analysis of residence time distribution during twin screw granulation
Powder Technology (2021)Simulation of rock fracture process based on GPU-accelerated discrete element method
Powder Technology (2021)Study on the effect of grain morphology on shear strength in granular materials via GPU based discrete element method simulations
Chemical Engineering Science (2021)The influence of faceted particle shapes on material dynamics in screw conveying
Applied Mathematical Modelling (2020)3D gradient corrected SPH for fully resolved particle-fluid interactions
Powder Technology (2020)A cohesive fracture model for discrete element method based on polyhedral blocks
Computers and Geotechnics (2020)Analysis of parallel spatial partitioning algorithms for GPU based DEM
Geoscience Frontiers (2020)Study on the particle breakage of ballast based on a GPU accelerated discrete element method
Chemical Engineering Science (2020)The effect of particle shape on the packed bed effective thermal conductivity based on DEM with polyhedral particles on the GPU
Chemical Engineering Science (2019)A numerical investigation into the effect of angular particle shape on blast furnace burden topography and percolation using a GPU solved discrete element model
Granular Matter (2019)Benefits of virtual calibration for discrete element parameter estimation from bulk experiments
Chemical Engineering Science (2019)Industrial scale simulations of tablet coating using GPU based DEM: A validation study
Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (2019)The Evolution of Grinding Mill Power Models
Applied Mathematics and Computation (2018)A study of shape non-uniformity and poly-dispersity in hopper discharge of spherical and polyhedral particle systems using the Blaze-DEM GPU code
Granular Matter (2018)Discrete element model study into effects of particle shape on backfill response to cyclic loading behind an integral bridge abutment
Minerals Engineering (2018)Effect of particle shape in grinding mills using a GPU based DEM code
Chemical Engineering Science (2018)Hopper flow of irregularly shaped particles (non-convex polyhedra): GPU-based DEM simulation and experimental validation
Advanced Powder Technology (2018)Large-scale GPU based DEM modeling of mixing using irregularly shaped particles
SoftwareX (2016)Blaze-DEMGPU: Modular high performance DEM framework for the GPU architecture
Applied Mathematics and Computation (2015)Collision detection of convex polyhedra on the NVIDIA GPU architecture for the discrete element method
Minerals Engineering (2015)Discrete element simulation of mill charge in 3D using the BLAZE-DEM GPU framework
Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics (2014)Development of a convex polyhedral discrete element simulation framework for NVIDIA Kepler based GPUs

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