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The synchronized molecular dynamics simulation via macroscopic heat and momentum transfer is proposed for the non-isothermal flow behaviors of complex fluids. In this method, the molecular dynamics simulations are assigned to small fluid…

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We study the translocation of polymers across varying-section channels. Using systematic approximations, we derive a simplified model that reduces the problem of polymer translocation through varying-section channels to that of a point-like…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-07-13 Valentino Bianco , Paolo Malgaretti

We study at- and out-of-equilibrium dynamics of a single homopolymer chain at low temperature using molecular dynamics simulations. The main quantities of interest are the average root mean square displacement of the monomers below the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Nikolay V. Dokholyan , Estelle Pitard , Sergey V. Buldyrev , H. Eugene Stanley

We analyze diffusion of small particles in a solid polymeric medium taking into account a short range particle-polymer interaction. The system is modeled by a particle diffusion on a ternary lattice where the sites occupied by polymer…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-11 Federico Camboni , Andreas Koher , Igor M. Sokolov

We investigate the driven polymer translocation through a nanometer-scale pore in the presence and absence of hydrodynamics both in good and bad solvent. We present our results on tension propagating along the polymer segment on the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 Jaakko E. Moisio , Joonas Piili , Riku P. Linna

We study equilibrium properties of polymer films and droplets on a solid substrate employing particle-based simulation techniques (Molecular Dynamics) and a continuum description. Parameter-passing techniques are explored that facilitate a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-03-25 Nikita Tretyakov , Marcus Müller , Desislava Todorova , Uwe Thiele

We investigated the Karman vortex behind a circular cylinder in a polymer solution by a molecular dynamics simulation. The vortex characteristics are distinctly different for short and long polymers. The solution with the long polymer…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-04-13 Yuta Asano , Hiroshi Watanabe , Hiroshi Noguchi

The statistical mechanics of a linear non-interacting polymer chain with a large number of monomers is considered with fixed angular momentum. The radius of gyration for a linear polymer is derived exactly by functional integration. This…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-05-29 Matthew Brunner , J. M. Deutsch

We study the conformation and dynamics of a single polymer chain that is pulled by a constant force applied at its one end with the other end free. Such a situation is relevant to the growing technology of manipulating individual…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-04 Takahiro Sakaue , Takuya Saito , Hirofumi Wada

The more we learn about the cytoplasm of cells, the more we realise that the cytoplasm is not uniform but instead is highly inhomogeneous. In any inhomogeneous solution, there are concentration gradients, and particles move either up or…

Subcellular Processes · Quantitative Biology 2019-04-03 Richard P. Sear

We study the dynamics and conformation of polymers composed by active monomers. By means of Brownian dynamics simulations we show that when the direction of the self-propulsion of each monomer is aligned with the backbone, the polymer…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-11-28 Valentino Bianco , Emanuele Locatelli , Paolo Malgaretti

Using analytical techniques and Langevin dynamics simulations, we investigate the dynamics of polymer translocation into a narrow channel of width $R$ embedded in two dimensions, driven by a force proportional to the number of monomers in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-08-26 Kaifu Luo , Ralf Metzler

The properties of semidilute polymer solutions are investigated at equilibrium and under shear flow by mesoscale simulations, which combine molecular dynamics simulations and the multiparticle collision dynamics approach. In semidilute…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-03-19 Chien-Cheng Huang , Roland G. Winkler , Godehard Sutmann , Gerhard Gompper

Large-scale molecular dynamics simulations are used to simulate a layer of nanoparticles diffusing on the surface of a liquid. Both a low viscosity liquid, represented by Lennard-Jones monomers, and a high viscosity liquid, represented by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-01-10 Shengfeng Cheng , Gary S. Grest

The phoretic Brownian dynamics method is shown here to be an effective approach to simulate the properties of colloidal chemophoretic based systems. The method is then optimized to allow for the comparison with results from multiparticle…

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The non-equilibrium structural and dynamical properties of a flexible polymer tethered to a reflecting wall and subject to oscillatory linear flow are studied by numerical simulations. Polymer is confined in two dimensions and is modeled as…

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Dynamics of a discrete polymer in time-dependent external potentials is studied with the master equation approach. We consider both stochastic and deterministic switching mechanisms for the potential states and give the essential equations…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-06-25 Janne Kauttonen , Juha Merikoski , Otto Pulkkinen

The dynamics of polymer-nanoparticle (NP) mixtures, which involves multiple scales and system-specific variables, has posed a long-standing challenge on its theoretical description. In this paper, we construct a microscopic theory for…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-06-15 Bokai Zhang , Jian Li , Juan-mei Hu , Lei Liu

We study single-chain motion in semidilute solutions of polymers of length N = 1000 with excluded-volume and hydrodynamic interactions by a novel algorithm. The crossover length of the transition from Zimm (short lengths and times) to Rouse…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Patrick Ahlrichs , Ralf Everaers , Burkhard Duenweg

The interaction of flexible polymers with fluid flows leads to a number of intriguing phenomena observed in laboratory experiments, namely drag reduction, elastic turbulence and heat transport modification in natural convection, and is one…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-10-29 Roberto Benzi , Emily S. C. Ching