Smoothed profile method for direct numerical simulations of hydrodynamically interacting particles

R Yamamoto, JJ Molina, Y Nakayama - Soft Matter, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
A general method is presented for computing the motions of hydrodynamically interacting
particles in various kinds of host fluids for arbitrary Reynolds numbers. The method follows …

Modeling hydrodynamic interactions in soft materials with multiparticle collision dynamics

MP Howard, A Nikoubashman, JC Palmer - Current Opinion in Chemical …, 2019 - Elsevier
Multiparticle collision dynamics (MPCD) is a flexible and robust mesoscale computational
technique for simulating solvent-mediated hydrodynamic interactions in soft materials. Here …

Hydrodynamics of suspensions of passive and active rigid particles: a rigid multiblob approach

F Balboa Usabiaga, B Kallemov, B Delmotte… - … in Applied Mathematics …, 2017 - msp.org
We develop a rigid multiblob method for numerically solving the mobility problem for
suspensions of passive and active rigid particles of complex shape in Stokes flow in …

Modelling the mechanics and hydrodynamics of swimming E. coli

J Hu, M Yang, G Gompper, RG Winkler - Soft matter, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
The swimming properties of an E. coli-type model bacterium are investigated by mesoscale
hydrodynamic simulations, combining molecular dynamics simulations of the bacterium with …

[HTML][HTML] Brownian dynamics of confined rigid bodies

S Delong, F Balboa Usabiaga, A Donev - The Journal of chemical …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
We introduce numerical methods for simulating the diffusive motion of rigid bodies of
arbitrary shape immersed in a viscous fluid. We parameterize the orientation of the bodies …

Structure Formation in Supraparticles Composed of Spherical and Elongated Particles

M Yetkin, YM Wani, K Kritika, MP Howard, M Kappl… - Langmuir, 2023 - ACS Publications
We studied the evaporation-induced formation of supraparticles from dispersions of
elongated colloidal particles using experiments and computer simulations. Aqueous …

Aggregation of amphiphilic nanocubes in equilibrium and under shear

T Yokoyama, Y Kobayashi, N Arai, A Nikoubashman - Soft matter, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
We investigate the self-assembly of amphiphilic nanocubes into finite-sized aggregates in
equilibrium and under shear, using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations and kinetic Monte …

Dramatic influence of patchy attractions on short-time protein diffusion under crowded conditions

S Bucciarelli, JS Myung, B Farago, S Das… - Science …, 2016 - science.org
In the dense and crowded environment of the cell cytoplasm, an individual protein feels the
presence of and interacts with all surrounding proteins. While we expect this to strongly …

Diffusion and sedimentation in colloidal suspensions using multiparticle collision dynamics with a discrete particle model

YM Wani, PG Kovakas, A Nikoubashman… - The Journal of …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
We study self-diffusion and sedimentation in colloidal suspensions of nearly hard spheres
using the multiparticle collision dynamics simulation method for the solvent with a discrete …

Efficient mesoscale hydrodynamics: Multiparticle collision dynamics with massively parallel GPU acceleration

MP Howard, AZ Panagiotopoulos… - Computer Physics …, 2018 - Elsevier
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 …