Granular materials involve a number of phenomena which cannot solely be described by standard local models. In recent years, various non-local models have been proposed to address these shortcomings. However, these non-local models are still in their first step and are rarely implemented numerically, thus making them unsuitable for practical applications. In this paper, we propose a numerical implementation of the non-local granular fluidity model which has newly gained popularity based on a finite volume method solver. The proposed implementation has the advantage of being very straightforward and of not requiring any transformation of the original model equations except a relaxation loop for stability purposes. This non-local computational fluid dynamic solver is then applied to reference cases such as annular and planar shear cells to confirm its accuracy.
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