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One essential goal of constructing coarse-grained molecular dynamics (CGMD) models is to accurately predict non-equilibrium processes beyond the atomistic scale. While a CG model can be constructed by projecting the full dynamics onto a set…
Structural and thermodynamic consistency of coarse-graining models across multiple length scales is essential for the predictive role of multi-scale modeling and molecular dynamic simulations that use mesoscale descriptions. Our approach is…
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In this study, a coarse-graining framework for discrete models is formulated on the basis of multiscale homogenization. The discrete model considered in this paper is the Lattice Discrete Particle Model (LDPM), which simulates concrete at…
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In computational materials science, coarse-graining approaches often lack a priori uncertainty quantification (UQ) tools that estimate the accuracy of a reduced-order model before it is calibrated or deployed. This is especially the case in…
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In this work we investigate the interplay between coherent and incoherent charge transport in cytosine-guanine (GC) rich DNA molecules. Our objective is to introduce physically grounded approach to dephasing in large molecules and to…
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An ordinary state-based peridynamic material model is proposed for single sheet graphene. The model is calibrated using coarse grained molecular dynamics simulations. The coarse graining method allows the dependence of bond force on bond…
The parametrization of coarse-grained (CG) simulation models for molecular systems often aims at reproducing static properties alone. The reduced molecular friction of the CG representation usually results in faster, albeit inconsistent,…
In the present article, novel Coarse-Graining (CG) algorithms for the Eulerian-Lagrangian (EL) simulation of particle-laden flows are proposed. These include different variants of Reproducing Kernel Particle Methods (RKPM) and an extended…
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We show that a mesoscopic coarse-grained dynamics model which incorporates the transient potential can be formally derived from an underlying microscopic dynamics model. As a microscopic dynamics model, we employ the overdamped Langevin…