Recent progress towards chemically-specific coarse-grained simulation models with consistent dynamical properties

JF Rudzinski - Computation, 2019 - mdpi.com
Coarse-grained (CG) models can provide computationally efficient and conceptually simple
characterizations of soft matter systems. While generic models probe the underlying physics …

Mori-Zwanzig projection operator formalism: Particle-based coarse-grained dynamics of open classical systems far from equilibrium

S Izvekov - Physical Review E, 2021 - APS
We present a generalized Langevin equation (GLE) of motion that governs exactly the time
evolution of phase-space observables in finite open systems described by classical …

Accuracy, transferability, and efficiency of coarse-grained models of molecular liquids

MG Guenza, M Dinpajooh, J McCarty… - The Journal of …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Coarse-graining (CG) approaches are becoming essential tools in the study of complex
systems because they can considerably speed up computer simulations, with the promise of …

Analysis of mapping atomic models to coarse-grained resolution

KM Kidder, WG Noid - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Low-resolution coarse-grained (CG) models provide significant computational and
conceptual advantages for simulating soft materials. However, the properties of CG models …

Surveying the energy landscape of coarse-grained mappings

KM Kidder, MS Shell, WG Noid - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Simulations of soft materials often adopt low-resolution coarse-grained (CG) models.
However, the CG representation is not unique and its impact upon simulated properties is …

Coarse-graining of overdamped Langevin dynamics via the Mori--Zwanzig formalism

T Hudson, XH Li - Multiscale Modeling & Simulation, 2020 - SIAM
The Mori--Zwanzig formalism is applied to derive an equation for the evolution of linear
observables of the overdamped Langevin equation. To illustrate the resulting equation and …

A different approach to dual-scale models

RJ Gowers, P Carbone, N Di Pasquale - Journal of Computational Physics, 2020 - Elsevier
Dual-resolution models which combine atomistic and coarse-grained details are usually
built sequentially. First, the coarse-grained model is optimized and subsequently atomistic …

Analytic expressions for correlations in coarse-grained simple fluids

S Luo, M Thachuk - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Coarse-graining of fluids is challenging because fluid particles are unbound and diffuse
long distances in time. One approach creates coarse-grain variables that group all particles …

MARTINI coarse‐grained model for poly‐ε‐caprolactone in acetone‐water mixtures

AD Lavino, P Carbone… - The Canadian Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In this work we present the development of a MARTINI‐type coarse‐graining (CG) model for
poly‐ε‐caprolactone (PCL) dissolved in a solvent binary mixture of acetone and water. A …

Microscopic derivation of coarse-grained, energy-conserving generalized Langevin dynamics

S Izvekov - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Properly simulating nonequilibrium phenomena such as thermal transport and shock wave
propagation in complex condensed matter systems require the conservation of system's …