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Multiparticle collision dynamics (MPCD) is a flexible and robust mesoscale computational technique for simulating solvent-mediated hydrodynamic interactions in soft materials. Here, we provide a critical overview of the MPCD method and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-02-28 Michael P. Howard , Arash Nikoubashman , Jeremy C. Palmer

We develop a method for simulating colloidal suspensions using multiparticle collision dynamics (MPCD) with a discrete particle model represented as a rigid body. The key steps for incorporating the rigid-body constraints are to thermalize…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-17 Michaela Bush , Jeremy C. Palmer , Michael P. Howard

Multiparticle collision dynamics (MPCD) is a relatively new algorithm of fluid flow simulations that has been applied mostly to flows around simple objects. One might ask how it behaves in more complex flows. Therefore, we extend MPCD to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-10-31 Maciej Matyka

Multiparticle collision dynamics (MPCD) is a mesoscale simulation technique that uses a simplified solvent to model hydrodynamic interactions. Rather than interact through pairwise forces, MPCD solvent particles undergo momentum-exchanging…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-10 Jinny Cha , Wilfred Kwabena Darko , Jeremy C. Palmer , Michael P. Howard

Multiparticle collision dynamics (MPCD) enables to simulate fluid dynamics including both hydrodynamics and thermal fluctuations. Its main use concerns complex fluids, where the solvent interacts with concentrated solutes, may they be…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-02-03 Vincent Dahirel , Xudong Zhao , Baptiste Couet , Guillaume Batôt , Marie Jardat

We study self-diffusion and sedimentation in colloidal suspensions of nearly-hard spheres using the multiparticle collision dynamics simulation method for the solvent with a discrete mesh model for the colloidal particles (MD+MPCD). We…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-01-26 Yashraj M. Wani , Penelope Grace Kovakas , Arash Nikoubashman , Michael P. Howard

Research on transport, self-assembly and defect dynamics within confined, flowing liquid crystals requires versatile and computationally efficient mesoscopic algorithms to account for fluctuating nematohydrodynamic interactions. We present…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-06-22 Tyler N. Shendruk , Julia M. Yeomans

We present the Multi-Particle-Collision (MPC) dynamics approach to simulate properties of low-dimensional systems. In particular, we illustrate the method for a simple model: a one-dimensional gas of point particles interacting through…

We summarize a series of numerical experiments of collisional dynamics in dense stellar systems such as globular clusters (GCs) and in weakly collisional plasmas using a novel simulation technique, the so-called Multi-particle collision…

Coarse-grained, mesoscale simulations are invaluable for studying soft condensed matter because of their ability to model systems in which a background solvent plays a significant role but is not the primary interest. Such methods generally…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-03-19 Timofey Kozhukhov , Tyler N. Shendruk

We develop a computational method based on Dissipative Particle Dynamics (DPD) that introduces solvent hydrodynamic interactions to coarse-grained models of solutes, such as ions, molecules, or polymers. DPD-solvent (DPDS) is a fully…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-05-24 Tine Curk

Sufficiently dense intrinsically out-of-equilibrium suspensions, such as those observed in biological systems, can be modelled as active fluids characterised by their orientational symmetry. While mesoscale numerical approaches to active…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-01-10 Oleksandr Baziei , Benjamín Loewe , Tyler N. Shendruk

Soft materials, such as colloidal suspensions, polymer solutions, and biological systems, are typically multicomponent mixtures of macromolecules and simpler components (e.g., microions, monomers, solvent) that can assemble into complex…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 Alan R. Denton

In order to investigate the rheological properties of viscoelastic fluids by mesoscopic hydrodynamics methods, we develop a multi-particle collision dynamics (MPC) model for a fluid of harmonic dumbbells. The algorithm consists of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-11-05 Yu-Guo Tao , Ingo O. Goetze , Gerhard Gompper

Multi-particle collision dynamics (MPCD) is a mesoscopic simulation method to simulate fluid particle-like flows. MPCD has been widely used to simulate various problems in condensed matter. In this study, hydrostatic behavior of gas in the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-09-28 Asis Pattisahusiwa , Acep Purqon , Sparisoma Virid

Liquid crystals establish a nearly unique combination of thermodynamic, hydrodynamic, and topological behavior. This poses a challenge to their theoretical understanding and modeling. The arena where these effects come together is the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-07-03 Shubhadeep Mandal , Marco G. Mazza

In this review we discuss the recent progress in the simulation of soft active matter systems and in particular the hydrodynamics of microswimmers using the method of multiparticle collision dynamics, which solves the hydrodynamic flows…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-09-03 Andreas Zöttl

In this review, we describe and analyze a mesoscale simulation method for fluid flow, which was introduced by Malevanets and Kapral in 1999, and is now called multi-particle collision dynamics (MPC) or stochastic rotation dynamics (SRD).…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Gompper , T. Ihle , D. M. Kroll , R. G. Winkler

The RMPCDMD software package performs hybrid Molecular Dynamics simulations, coupling Multiparticle Collision Dynamics to model the solvent and Molecular Dynamics to model suspended colloids, including hydrodynamics, thermal fluctuations,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-01-13 Pierre de Buyl , Mu-Jie Huang , Laurens Deprez

Many suspensions contain particles with complex shapes that are affected not only by hydrodynamics, but also by thermal fluctuations, internal kinematic constraints and other long-range non-hydrodynamic interactions. Modeling these systems…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-31 Blaise Delmotte , Florencio Balboa Usabiaga
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