doi:10.3850/978-981-07-2518-1_238
| Keynote | Modelling Cohesive Particulates for Material Handling Applications |
| Presenter | Prof. Jin Y. Ooi, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom |
Professor Ooi joined the University of Edinburgh in 1990 and is currently the Professor of Particulate Solid Mechanics. Prior to Edinburgh, he obtained his BEng (Hons) degree from the University of Auckland in 1985 and his PhD from the University of Sydney in 1991. His principal research interests lie in the mechanics and dynamics of granular solids and powders, with special reference to bulk solids handling and silo design. His research covers both computational and experimental studies in pursuit of new insights into the behaviour of particulate systems, and exploiting these to address a variety of industrial problems. Recent examples include design of two novel testers for cohesive solids that are being used in several countries, evaluation of iron ore silos with over 100,000 tonnes capacity each and co-founding of a spin-out particle dynamics software company. Professor Ooi has served on editorial boards for several journals, presented many keynote lectures at international conferences/meetings, undertaken consultancies with numerous organisations and authored over 150 publications. His most recent passion is the verification and validation of the discrete element method to establish predictive capability of the technique.
