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Computer simulations of model systems are widely used to explore striking phenomena in promising applications spanning from physics, chemistry, biology, to materials science and engineering. The long range electrostatic interactions between…
A proper treatment of electrostatic interactions is crucial for the accurate calculation of forces in computer simulations. Electrostatic interactions are typically modeled using Ewald based methods, which have become one of the…
We have studied a bulk electrolyte, and polyelectrolyte solutions with surfactants or multivalent salt with the explicit presence of counterions and solvent molecules by means of the mesoscopic dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) method in…
Standard Ewald sums, which calculate e.g. the electrostatic energy or the force in periodically closed systems of charged particles, can be efficiently speeded up by the use of the Fast Fourier Transformation (FFT). In this article we…
Electrohydrodynamics is crucial in many nanofluidic and biotechnological applications. In such small scales, the complexity due to the coupling of fluid dynamics with the dynamics of ions is increased by the relevance of thermal…
To evaluate electrostatics interactions, Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations rely on Particle Mesh Ewald (PME), an O(Nlog(N)) algorithm that uses Fast Fourier Transforms (FFTs) or, alternatively, on O(N) Fast Multipole Methods (FMM)…
We present an NPT extension of Ewald summation with prolates (ESP), a spectrally accurate and scalable particle-mesh method for molecular dynamics simulations of periodic, charged systems. Building on the recently introduced ESP framework,…
We propose an efficient simulation algorithm based on the dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) method for studying electrohydrodynamic phenomena in electrolyte fluids. The fluid flow is mimicked with DPD particles while the evolution of the…
Ewald summation is an important technique used to deal with long-range Coulomb interaction. While it is widely used in simulations of molecules and solid state materials, many important results are dispersed in literature and their…
We study numerical methods for dissipative particle dynamics (DPD), which is a system of stochastic differential equations and a popular stochastic momentum-conserving thermostat for simulating complex hydrodynamic behavior at mesoscales.…
Dielectrically confined Coulomb systems are widely employed in molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. Despite extensive efforts in developing efficient and accurate algorithms for these systems, rigorous and accurate error estimates, which…
The evaluation of long-range Coulomb interactions is a significant cost in molecular dynamics (MD), even when using Particle Mesh Ewald (PME) or Particle-Particle-Particle-Mesh (PPPM) methods, which rely on Ewald splitting and the fast…
A unified treatment for fast and spectrally accurate evaluation of electrostatic potentials subject to periodic boundary conditions in any or none of the three spatial dimensions is presented. Ewald decomposition is used to split the…
We present a new approach to efficiently simulate electrolytes confined between infinite charged walls using a 3d Ewald summation method. The optimal performance is achieved by separating the electrostatic potential produced by the charged…
We develop a computational method for modeling electrostatic interactions of arbitrarily-shaped, polarizable objects on colloidal length scales, including colloids/nanoparticles, polymers, and surfactants, dispersed in explicit ion…
In computational molecular science, calculation of electrostatic interactions involving charged atoms - the strongest interactions in condensed phases, is a major bottleneck. We propose a quantum-classical algorithm for fast, yet, accurate…
A crucial aspect in the simulation of electrochemical interfaces consists in treating the distribution of electronic charge of electrode materials that are put in contact with an electrolyte solution. Recently, it has been shown how a…
Fast Ewald summation efficiently evaluates Coulomb interactions and is widely used in molecular dynamics simulations. It is based on a split into a short-range and a long-range part, where evaluation of the latter is accelerated using the…
To minimise systematic errors in Monte Carlo simulations of charged particles, long range electrostatic interactions have to be calculated accurately and efficiently. Standard approaches, such as Ewald summation or the naive application of…
A computer adapted fluctuation formula for the calculation of the wavevector- and frequency-dependent dielectric permittivity for interaction site models of polar fluids within the Ewald summation technique is proposed and applied to…