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The friction and diffusion coefficients of rigid spherical colloidal particles dissolved in a fluid are determined from velocity and force autocorrelation functions by mesoscale hydrodynamic simulations. Colloids with both slip and no-slip…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-03-10 Mario Theers , Elmar Westphal , Gerhard Gompper , Roland G. Winkler

Rigid bodies, made of smaller composite beads, are commonly used to simulate anisotropic particles with molecular dynamics or Monte Carlo methods. To accurately represent the particle shape and to obtain smooth and realistic effective pair…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-02-20 B. Rusen Argun , Yu Fu , Antonia Statt

Simulations of colloidal suspensions consisting of mesoscopic particles and smaller species such as ions or depletants are computationally challenging as different length and time scales are involved. Here, we introduce a machine learning…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-12-01 Gerardo Campos-Villalobos , Emanuele Boattini , Laura Filion , Marjolein Dijkstra

Stokesian Dynamics (SD) is a numerical framework used for simulating hydrodynamic interactions in particle suspensions at low Reynolds number. It combines far-field approximations with near-field lubrication corrections, offering a balance…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-21 Kim William Torre , Joost de Graaf

We present a new hybrid lattice-Boltzmann and Langevin molecular dynamics scheme for simulating the dynamics of suspensions of spherical colloidal particles. The solvent is modeled on the level of the lattice-Boltzmann method while the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-06-20 Vladimir Lobaskin , Burkhard Duenweg

Several physical systems in condensed matter have been modeled approximating their constituent particles as hard objects. The hard spheres model has been indeed one of the cornerstones of the computational and theoretical description in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Cristiano De Michele

A new and very general technique for simulating solid-fluid suspensions has been described in a previous paper (Part I); the most important feature of the new method is that the computational cost scales with the number of particles. In…

comp-gas · Physics 2009-10-22 Anthony J. C. Ladd

The sedimentation process of granular materials exists ubiquitously in nature and many fields which involve the solid-liquid separation. This paper employs the coupled computational fluid dynamics and discrete element method (CFD-DEM) to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-11-07 Shan-Lin Xu , Rui Sun , Yuan-Qiang Cai , Hong-Lei Sun

We investigate properties of dense suspensions and sediments of small spherical silt particles by means of a combined Molecular Dynamics (MD) and Stochastic Rotation Dynamics (SRD) simulation. We include van der Waals and effective…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Martin Hecht , Jens Harting , Thomas Ihle , Hans J. Herrmann

We present a new particle-based (discrete element) numerical method for the simulation of granular dynamics, with application to motions of particles on small solar system body and planetary surfaces. The method employs the parallel N-body…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-12 Derek C. Richardson , Kevin J. Walsh , Naomi Murdoch , Patrick Michel

We present an efficient open-source implementation of the multiparticle collision dynamics (MPCD) algorithm that scales to run on hundreds of graphics processing units (GPUs). We especially focus on optimizations for modern GPU…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-08-01 Michael P. Howard , Athanassios Z. Panagiotopoulos , Arash Nikoubashman

The Dynamic Monte Carlo (DMC) method is an established molecular simulation technique for the analysis of the dynamics in colloidal suspensions. An excellent alternative to Brownian Dynamics or Molecular Dynamics simulation, DMC is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-07-15 Fabián A. García Daza , Alejandro Cuetos , Alessandro Patti

Modeling and direct numerical simulation of particle-laden flows have a tremendous variety of applications in science and engineering across a vast spectrum of scales from pollution dispersion in the atmosphere, to fluidization in the…

We present an efficient, accurate, and robust method for simulation of dense suspensions of deformable and rigid particles immersed in Stokesian fluid in two dimensions. We use a well-established boundary integral formulation for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-23 Libin Lu , Abtin Rahimian , Denis Zorin

Event-driven molecular dynamics simulations are carried out on two rigid body systems which differ in the symmetry of their molecular mass distributions. First, simulations of methane in which the molecules interact via discontinuous…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Lisandro Hernandez de la Pena , Ramses van Zon , Jeremy Schofield , Sheldon B. Opps

Stellar systems are broadly divided into collisional and non-collisional. The latter are large-N systems with long relaxation timescales and can be simulated disregarding two-body interactions, while either computationally expensive direct…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-05 Pierfrancesco Di Cintio , Mario Pasquato , Hyunwoo Kim , Suk-Jin Yoon

A new and very general technique for simulating solid-fluid suspensions is described; its most important feature is that the computational cost scales linearly with the number of particles. The method combines Newtonian dynamics of the…

comp-gas · Physics 2009-10-22 Anthony J. C. Ladd

Computer simulation is an important tool for scientific progress, especially when lab experiments are either extremely costly and difficult or lack the required resolution. However, all of the simulation methods come with limitations. In…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-08-04 Edward R. Smith , Panagiotis E. Theodorakis

Many-body dissipative particle dynamics (MDPD) offers a significant speed-up in the simulation of various systems, including soft matter, in comparison with molecular dynamics (MD) simulations based on Lennard-Jones nteractions, which is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-06-09 Natalia Kramarz , Luís H. Carnevale , Panagiotis E. Theodorakis

Hybrid particle-field methods are computationally efficient approaches for modelling soft matter systems. So far applications of these methodologies have been limited to constant volume conditions. Here, we reformulate particle-field…