Institute of Multiscale Simulation

June 1, 2023 - The Discrete Element Method (DEM) is an essential numerical tool for the simulation of granular materials, and is central to many research projects of the MSS. This semester, Vasileios Angelidakis teaches a new MSc course entitled Discrete Element Simulations, which he designed to ...

May 28, 2023 - The issue 20 of Soft Matter selected our contribution as cover image. This image relates to the article Macroscopic analogue to entangled polymers, published by Leopoldo Gómez, Nicolas García and Thorsten Pöschel. Discover the article here.

April 11, 2023 - Nicolas Pechler has joined as our new PhD student.

March 1, 2023 - The award was given in the annual Symposium of the Department of Chemical and Bioengineering. They received the prize for their poster:"Adaptive metamaterials based on granular jamming".

December 15, 2022 - During the Christmas Party of the Department of Chemical and Bioengineering, Achim Sack proudly received the Students Award for Excellent Teaching for his lecture "Measuring Techniques” during the Summer Semester 2022.

November 16, 2022 - Olfa D’Angelo published the article “Granular piston-probing in microgravity: powder compression from densification to jamming” in npj Microgravity. This articles shows experimental evidence that granular jamming happens at a lower packing fraction under microgravity than under E...

October 27, 2022 - Adriana from University of Havana, Kuba, received a scholarship to study in "controlled motion induced by acoustic resonance".