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A simple model for simulating flows of active suspensions is investigated. The approach is based on dissipative particle dynamics. While the model is potentially applicable to a wide range of self-propelled particle systems, the specific…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-10-08 Denis F. Hinz , Alexander Panchenko , Tae-Yeon Kim , Eliot Fried

The self-assembly of polyhedral shells, each constructed from 60 trapezoidal particles, is simulated using molecular dynamics. The spatial organization of the component particles in this shell is similar to the capsomer proteins forming the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-12-05 D. C. Rapaport

Macroevolutionary dynamics often display sudden, explosive surges, where systems remain relatively stable for extended periods before experiencing dramatic acceleration that frequently exceeds traditional exponential growth. This pattern is…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-01-23 Alessandro Bellina , Giordano De Marzo , Vittorio Loreto

We review a dynamical approach to non-equilibrium MD (D-NEMD). We show how, using a proper simulation setup, is possible to treat interesting cases in which the initial condition is a stationary non-equilibrium state produced by a suitable…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Sergio Orlandini , Simone Meloni , Giovanni Ciccotti

The application of machine learning (ML) techniques, especially neural networks, has seen tremendous success at processing images and language. This is because we often lack formal models to understand visual and audio input, so here neural…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Ann-Kathrin Dombrowski , Klaus-Robert Müller , Wolf Christian Müller

When an ensemble of particles interact hydrodynamically, they generically display large-scale transient structures such as swirls in sedimenting particles [1], or colloidal strings in sheared suspensions [2]. Understanding these…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-01-24 Nicolas Desreumaux , Jean-Baptiste Caussin , Raphael Jeanneret , Eric Lauga , Denis Bartolo

We investigate the effect of cooperative interactions in an ensemble of microorganisms, modelled as self-propelled disk-like and rod-like particles, in a three-dimensional turbulent flow to show flocking as an emergent phenomenon. Building…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-05-20 Anupam Gupta , Amal Roy , Arnab Saha , Samriddhi Sankar Ray

An important aspect of astrophysical MHD turbulence research is developing diagnostics to connect simulations with the observable universe. Turbulent systems are by definition structurally complex in all fluid variables (density, velocity,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eve C. Ostriker

Dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) is a novel particle method for mesoscale modeling of complex fluids. DPD particles are often thought to represent packets of real atoms, and the physical scale probed in DPD models are determined by the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-10-18 R. Qiao , P. He

We study the sedimentation of finite-size inertial particles in a Rayleigh-Taylor-like setup using state-of-the-art direct numerical simulations. The falling particles are observed to produce two distinct regions: a leading mixing layer…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-28 Simone Tandurella , Marco Edoardo Rosti , Stefano Musacchio , Guido Boffetta

Although coarse-grained models have been widely used to explain exotic phenomena in complex fluids, such as droplet formation in living cells, these conventional approaches often fail to capture the intricate microscopic degrees of freedom…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-06-13 Masanari Shimada , Tetsuya J. Kobayashi

Kinetics of dislocations is studied by means of computer simulation during intensive plastic deformation. The dynamical effect in the form of soliton-like wave of sharply disrupted interparticle bonds is observed. Along with it, micropores…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 L. S. Metlov

We investigate the hydrodynamic properties of a fluid simulated with a mesoscopic solvent model. Two distinct regimes are identified, the `particle regime' in which the dynamics is gas-like, and the `collective regime' where the dynamics is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Ripoll , K. Mussawisade , R. G. Winkler , G. Gompper

Simulating and predicting dynamics of quantum many-body systems is extremely challenging, even for state-of-the-art computational methods, due to the spread of entanglement across the system. However, in the long-wavelength limit, quantum…

Molecular dynamics (MD) is a powerful technique for studying microscopic phenomena, but its computational cost has driven significant interest in the development of deep learning-based surrogate models. We introduce generative modeling of…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-09-27 Bowen Jing , Hannes Stärk , Tommi Jaakkola , Bonnie Berger

Suspensions of self-propelled particles, such as swimming micro-organisms, are known to undergo complex dynamics as a result of hydrodynamic interactions. This fluid dynamics video presents a numerical simulation of such a suspension, based…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-20 David Saintillan , Amir Alizadeh Pahlavan

The dynamic behavior of a partially wetting polymer droplet driven over a nanostructured interface is studied using molecular dynamics simulations. We consider the bead-spring model to represent a polymeric liquid that partially wets a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-06-17 Anish Thomas , Nikolai V. Priezjev

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations allow investigating the structural dynamics of biomolecular systems with unrivaled time and space resolution. However, in order to compensate for the inaccuracies of the utilized empirical force fields,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-02-12 Andrea Cesari , Sabine Reißer , Giovanni Bussi

Cluster media are dynamical, not static; observational evidence suggests they are turbulent. High-resolution simulations of the intracluster media (ICMs) and of idealized, similar media help us understand the complex physics and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-24 T. W. Jones , David H. Porter , Dongsu Ryu , Jungyeon Cho

In this work we study the dynamic behaviour of compound shells of revolution partially filled with an ideal incompressible fluid based on boundary-value problems. New analytical mathematical model with corresponding discrete scheme for the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2016-06-15 Iryna Kononenko , Oleksiy Kononenko