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    <journal-meta>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="aggregator">72010410</journal-id>
      <journal-title>NIP &amp; Digital Fabrication Conference</journal-title>
      <abbrev-journal-title>nip digi fabric conf</abbrev-journal-title>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">2169-4451</issn><issn pub-type="epub"/>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Society of Imaging Science and Technology</publisher-name>
        <publisher-loc>7003 Kilworth Lane, Springfield, VA 22151, USA</publisher-loc>
      </publisher>
    </journal-meta>
    <article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.2352/ISSN.2169-4451.2005.21.1.art00063_2</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="sici">2169-4451(20050101)2005:2L.578;1-</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">nip_v2005n2/splitsection63.xml</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="other">/ist/nipdf/2005/00002005/00000002/art00063</article-id>
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          <subject>Articles</subject>
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      <title-group>
        <article-title>Numerical Simulation of Carrier Behavior Around a Magnet Roll in a Two-Component Developer Unit in Electrophotography</article-title>
      </title-group>
      <contrib-group>
        <contrib>
          <name>
            <surname>Watanabe</surname>
            <given-names>Takahiro</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <pub-date>
        <day>01</day>
        <month>01</month>
        <year>2005</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>2005</volume>
      <issue>2</issue>
      <fpage>578</fpage>
      <lpage>581</lpage>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-year>2005</copyright-year>
      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <p>A new particle simulator to analyze the behavior of carrier beads around a magnet roll in a two-component developer unit in electrophotography has been developed. The simulator, which is based on the Discrete Element Method, including the magnetic interaction force among particles in
 a magnetic field, adopts parallel processing with MPI and/or OpenMP. Parallel processing of the particle simulator with several processors provides excellent performance to simulate the behavior of a realistic amount of particles in a practical time. The simulation results obtained for tens
 of thousands of carrier beads reveals not only realistic particle behavior around a magnet roll but also the quantitative relation between the stress on the carrier and the amount of carrier beads that passes through a gap between the doctor blade and the magnet roll. These are very important
 parameters to obtain high-quality images in a two-component developer unit.</p>
      </abstract>
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