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We present a multiparticle collision dynamics (MPC) implementation of layered immiscible fluids $A$ and $B$ of different shear viscosities separated by planar interfaces. The simulated flow profile for imposed steady shear motion and the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-09-07 Zihan Tan , Vania Calandrini , Jan K. G. Dhont , Gerhard Nägele , Roland G. Winkler

The deformability of soft condensed matter often requires modelling of hydrodynamical aspects to gain quantitative understanding. This, however, requires specialised methods that can resolve the multiscale nature of soft matter systems. We…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-12-22 Ulf D. Schiller , Timm Krüger , Oliver Henrich

We study the microrheology of active suspensions through direct hydrodynamic simulations using model pusher-like microswimmers. We demonstrate that the friction coefficient of a probe particle is notably reduced by hydrodynamic interactions…

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We review progress in the hydrodynamic description of heavy-ion collisions, focusing on recent developments in modeling the fluctuating initial state and event-by-event viscous hydrodynamic simulations. We discuss how hydrodynamics can be…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 Charles Gale , Sangyong Jeon , Bjoern Schenke

Microswimmers often exhibit surprising patterns due to the nonequilibrium nature of their dynamics. Collectively, suspensions of microswimmers appear as a liquid whose properties set it apart from its passive counterpart. To understand the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-05-22 Fabian Jan Schwarzendahl , Marco G. Mazza

A new computational method is presented to resolve hydrodynamic interactions acting on solid particles immersed in incompressible host fluids. In this method, boundaries between solid particles and host fluids are replaced with a continuous…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Y. Nakayama , R. Yamamoto

We present an extension of the multiparticle collision dynamics method for flows with complex interfaces, including supramolecular near-contact interactions mimicking the effect of surfactants. The new method is demonstrated for the case of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-04-22 Andrea Montessori , Marco Lauricella , Adriano Tiribocchi , Fabio Bonaccorso , Sauro Succi

We review the current status of compact object simulations that are based on the Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method. The first main part of this review is dedicated to SPH as a numerical method. We begin by discussing relevant…

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The underlying mechanisms and physics of catalytic Janus microswimmers is highly complex, requiring details of the associated phoretic fields and the physiochemical properties of catalyst, particle, boundaries, and the fuel used. Therefore,…

The paper presents a two-phase hydrodynamic model for the numerical simulation of collective motion in a thin layer of active colloids containing spherical microswimmers. The model accounts for three fundamental mechanisms governing the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-10 A. Kiverin , S. Luguev , I. Yakovenko

In conventional fluid mechanics, the chemical composition and thermodynamic state of a fluid-solid interface are not considered when establishing velocity-field boundary conditions. As a consequence, fluid simulations are usually not able…

Transport of material across liquid interfaces is ubiquitous for living cells and is also a crucial step in drug delivery and in many industrial processes. The fluids that are present on either side of the interfaces will usually have…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-05-24 Chao Feng , John J. Molina , Matthew S. Turner , Ryoichi Yamamoto

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…

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The growing interest in the dynamical properties of colloidal suspensions, both in equilibrium and under an external drive such as shear or pressure flow, requires the development of accurate methods to correctly include hydrodynamic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-11-11 José Ruiz-Franco , Diego Jaramillo-Cano , Manuel Camargo , Christos N. Likos , Emanuela Zaccarelli

Real-life control tasks involve matters of various substances---rigid or soft bodies, liquid, gas---each with distinct physical behaviors. This poses challenges to traditional rigid-body physics engines. Particle-based simulators have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Yunzhu Li , Jiajun Wu , Russ Tedrake , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Antonio Torralba

Fluid flow simulation is a highly active area with applications in a wide range of engineering problems and interactive systems. Meshless methods like the Moving Particle Semi-implicit (MPS) are a great alternative to deal efficiently with…

Creating realistic droplet simulations and animations has long been a formidable challenge for researchers and developers due to the inherent complexity of fluid dynamics. Achieving lifelike droplet splash simulations while managing…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-11-26 Hossein Keshtkar , Nadine Aburumman

Microswimmers typically operate in complex environments. In biological systems, often diverse species are simultaneously present and interact with each other. Here, we derive a (time-dependent) particle-scale statistical description, namely…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-08-13 Christian Hoell , Hartmut Löwen , Andreas M. Menzel