A coupled SPH-DEM model for micro-scale structural deformations of plant cells during drying
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Article Title | A coupled SPH-DEM model for micro-scale structural deformations of plant cells during drying |
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ERA Journal ID | 48 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | Karunasena, H. C. P. (Author), Senadeera, W. (Author), Gu, Y. T. (Author) and Brown, R. J. (Author) |
Journal Title | Applied Mathematical Modelling: simulation and computation for engineering and environmental systems |
Journal Citation | 38 (15-16), pp. 3781-3801 |
Number of Pages | 21 |
Year | 2014 |
Publisher | Elsevier |
Place of Publication | New York, NY. United States |
ISSN | 0307-904X |
1872-8480 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apm.2013.12.004 |
Web Address (URL) | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0307904X1300797X |
Abstract | A single plant cell was modeled with smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) and a discrete element method (DEM) to study the basic micromechanics that govern the cellular structural deformations during drying. This two-dimensional particle-based model consists of two components: a cell fluid model and a cell wall model. The cell fluid was approximated to a highly viscous Newtonian fluid and modeled with SPH. The cell wall was treated as a stiff semi-permeable solid membrane with visco-elastic properties and modeled as a neo-Hookean solid material using a DEM. Compared to existing meshfree particle-based plant cell models, we have specifically introduced cell wall–fluid attraction forces and cell wall bending stiffness effects to address the critical shrinkage characteristics of the plant cells during drying. Also, a moisture domain-based novel approach was used to simulate drying mechanisms within the particle scheme. The model performance was found to be mainly influenced by the particle resolution, initial gap between the outermost fluid particles and wall particles and number of particles in the SPH influence domain. A higher order smoothing kernel was used with adaptive smoothing length to improve the stability and accuracy of the model. Cell deformations at different states of cell dryness were qualitatively and quantitatively compared with microscopic experimental findings on apple cells and a fairly good agreement was observed with some exceptions. The wall–fluid attraction forces and cell wall bending stiffness were found to be significantly improving the model predictions. A detailed sensitivity analysis was also done to further investigate the influence of wall–fluid attraction forces, cell wall bending stiffness, cell wall stiffness and the particle resolution. This novel meshfree based modeling approach is highly applicable for cellular level deformation studies of plant food materials during drying,which characterize large deformations. |
Keywords | SPH, smoothed particle hydrodynamics, meshfree particle-based methods, micro-scale cell models, drying |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 400405. Food engineering |
Public Notes | Files associated with this item cannot be displayed due to copyright restrictions. |
Byline Affiliations | Queensland University of Technology |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q3wxx/a-coupled-sph-dem-model-for-micro-scale-structural-deformations-of-plant-cells-during-drying
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