Programme  Titles  Presenters  Topics  Session 1A: Contemporary Issues Monday, July 13, 2009, Monday, July 13, 2009 9:30 am Metals Hall Chair: Masami Nakagawa 1A-1 2d granular gas in Knudsen regime and in microgravity excited by vibration: Velocity and position distributions Meiying Hou*, Riu Liu, G Zai, K Lu, Yves Garrabos, Pierre Evesque 1A-2 Modeling of the electrochemical conduction of partially sintered fuel cell electrodes by discrete simulations Ludwig Schneider, Christophe Louis Martin*, Didier Bouvard, Yann Bultel 1A-3 Simulation of the Fuel Reactor of a Coal-Fired Chemical Looping Combustor Kartikeya Mahalatkar, Thomas O'Brien*, E. David Huckaby, John Kuhlman 1A-4 Quasi-static Compaction of Polyhedra by the Discrete Element Method Kyle Smith*, Timothy Fisher, Meheboob Alam