Coarse-Graining and Scaling in Dissipative Particle Dynamics
Soft Condensed Matter
2011-11-09 v2 Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
Dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) is now a well-established method for simulating soft matter systems. However, its applicability was recently questioned because some investigations showed an upper coarse-graining limit that would prevent the applicability of the method to the whole mesoscopic range. This article aims to reestablish DPD as a truly scale-free method by analyzing the problems reported by other authors and by presenting a scaling scheme that allows one to gauge a DPD-simulation to any desired length scale.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0703682,
title = {Coarse-Graining and Scaling in Dissipative Particle Dynamics},
author = {Rudolf M. Füchslin and Harold Fellermann and Anders Eriksson and Hans-Joachim Ziock},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0703682},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
8 pages, 3 figures -- major changes to the text, simulations added