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The influence of the chain degree of ionization on the adsorption of weak polyelectrolytes on neutral and on oppositely and likely charged surfaces is investigated for the first time, by means of Monte Carlo simulations with the mesoscopic…

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Computer simulations of model systems are widely used to explore striking phenomena in promising applications spanning from physics, chemistry, biology, to materials science and engineering. The long range electrostatic interactions between…

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Discrete particle simulation, a combined approach of computational fluid dynamics and discrete methods such as DEM (Discrete Element Method), DSMC (Direct Simulation Monte Carlo), SPH (Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics), PIC…

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Dense suspensions of small strongly interacting particles are complex systems, which are rarely understood on the microscopic level. We investigate properties of dense suspensions and sediments of small spherical Al_2O_3 particles in a…

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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…

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By performing an ensemble of molecular dynamics simulations, the model-dependent ionisation state is computed for strongly interacting systems self-consistently. This is accomplished through a free energy minimisation framework based on the…

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In a recent review~Landsgesell et al., Soft Matter {\bf 15}, 1155 (2019) stated that $\text{pH} - \text{pK}_a$ is a ``universal parameter" for titrating systems. We show that this is not the case. This broken symmetry has important…

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Different schemes for the treatment of long-ranged electrostatic interactions will be examined for water simulations using the polarizable fluctuating charge potential. Several different methods are compared, including Ewald sums, potential…

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We present an accelerated ``on-the-fly'' coupled-cluster path-integral molecular dynamics (PIMD) method for finite-temperature simulations in which electron correlation and nuclear quantum effects are treated simultaneously. The approach is…

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We use the extension of scaled particle theory (ESPT) presented in the accompanying paper [Stillinger et al. J. Chem. Phys. xxx, xxx (2007)] to calculate numerically pair correlation function of the hard sphere fluid over the density range…

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We present an NPT extension of Ewald summation with prolates (ESP), a spectrally accurate and scalable particle-mesh method for molecular dynamics simulations of periodic, charged systems. Building on the recently introduced ESP framework,…

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