Multi-particle collision dynamics: A particle-based mesoscale simulation approach to the hydrodynamics of complex fluids

G Gompper, T Ihle, DM Kroll, RG Winkler - Advanced computer simulation …, 2009 - Springer
In this review, we describe and analyze a mesoscale simulation method for fluid flow, which
was introduced by Malevanets and Kapral in 1999, and is now called multi-particle collision …

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 …

Hydrodynamic interactions and Brownian forces in colloidal suspensions: Coarse-graining over time and length scales

JT Padding, AA Louis - Physical Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft …, 2006 - APS
We describe in detail how to implement a coarse-grained hybrid molecular dynamics and
stochastic rotation dynamics simulation technique that captures the combined effects of …

Mesoscale simulations of hydrodynamic squirmer interactions

IO Götze, G Gompper - Physical Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft …, 2010 - APS
The swimming behavior of self-propelled microorganisms is studied by particle-based
mesoscale simulations. The simulation technique includes both hydrodynamics and thermal …

Modeling a spheroidal microswimmer and cooperative swimming in a narrow slit

M Theers, E Westphal, G Gompper, RG Winkler - Soft Matter, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
We propose a hydrodynamic model for a spheroidal microswimmer with two tangential
surface velocity modes. This model is analytically solvable and reduces to Lighthill's and …

Trypanosome motion represents an adaptation to the crowded environment of the vertebrate bloodstream

N Heddergott, T Krüger, SB Babu, A Wei… - PLoS …, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Blood is a remarkable habitat: it is highly viscous, contains a dense packaging of cells and
perpetually flows at velocities varying over three orders of magnitude. Only few pathogens …

Enhanced rotational motion of spherical squirmer in polymer solutions

K Qi, E Westphal, G Gompper, RG Winkler - Physical review letters, 2020 - APS
The rotational diffusive motion of a self-propelled, attractive spherical colloid immersed in a
solution of self-avoiding polymers is studied by mesoscale hydrodynamic simulations. A …

Hydrodynamic simulations of self-phoretic microswimmers

M Yang, A Wysocki, M Ripoll - Soft matter, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
A mesoscopic hydrodynamic model to simulate synthetic self-propelled Janus particles
which is thermophoretically or diffusiophoretically driven is here developed. We first propose …

Simulation of a model microswimmer

MT Downton, H Stark - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
We discuss the modelling of a microswimmer that operates in a'squirmer'mode, by means of
stochastic rotation dynamics. The squirmer that we model can easily be tuned between …

Fluid–solid boundary conditions for multiparticle collision dynamics

JK Whitmer, E Luijten - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
The simulation of colloidal particles suspended in solvent requires an accurate
representation of the interactions between the colloids and the solvent molecules. Using the …