The objective of this thesis is to shed light on the vertical vibration of granular materials for potential interest in the power generation industry. The main focus is investigating the drag force and frictional resistance that influence the movement of a granular material (in the form of glass beads) contained in a vessel, which is subjected to sinusoidal oscillation.The thesis is divided into three parts: theoretical analysis, experiments and computer simulations. The theoretical part of this study presents the underlying physical phenomena of the vibration of granular materials. Experiments are designed to determine fundamental parameters that contribute to the behavior of vibrating granular media. Numerical simulations include the use of three different software applications: FLUENT, LS-DYNA and ANSYS Workbench. The goal of these simulations is to test theoretical and semiempirical models for granular materials in order to validate their compatibility with the experimental findings, to assist in predicting their behavior, and to estimate quantities that are hard to measure in laboratory.
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