111 years of Brownian motion

X Bian, C Kim, GE Karniadakis - Soft Matter, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
We consider the Brownian motion of a particle and present a tutorial review over the last 111
years since Einstein's paper in 1905. We describe Einstein's model, Langevin's model and …

Approaches for describing processes of fuel droplet heating and evaporation in combustion engines

J Xie - Fuel, 2024 - Elsevier
Fuel consumption and energy efficiency are still of great interest in combustion engineering
and science. This state-of-the-art review revisits the fuel droplet heating and evaporation in …

MaMiCo: Transient multi-instance molecular-continuum flow simulation on supercomputers

P Neumann, X Bian - Computer Physics Communications, 2017 - Elsevier
We present extensions of the macro–micro-coupling tool MaMiCo, which was designed to
couple continuum fluid dynamics solvers with discrete particle dynamics. To enable local …

Arbitrary slip length for fluid-solid interface of arbitrary geometry in smoothed particle dynamics

X Cai, Z Li, X Bian - Journal of Computational Physics, 2023 - Elsevier
We model a slip boundary condition at fluid-solid interface of an arbitrary geometry in
smoothed particle hydrodynamics and smoothed dissipative particle dynamics simulations …

Molecular dynamics simulations in hybrid particle-continuum schemes: pitfalls and caveats

S Stalter, L Yelash, N Emamy, A Statt, M Hanke… - Computer Physics …, 2018 - Elsevier
Heterogeneous multiscale methods (HMM) combine molecular accuracy of particle-based
simulations with the computational efficiency of continuum descriptions to model flow in soft …

Smoothed dissipative particle dynamics model for mesoscopic multiphase flows in the presence of thermal fluctuations

H Lei, NA Baker, L Wu, GK Schenter, CJ Mundy… - Physical Review E, 2016 - APS
Thermal fluctuations cause perturbations of fluid-fluid interfaces and highly nonlinear
hydrodynamics in multiphase flows. In this work, we develop a multiphase smoothed …

Investigation of the effect of wall material on the exchange of information between fluid and surface using the hybrid atomistic-continuum method

S Yousefi-Nasab, J Karimi-Sabet, J Safdari - Computational Particle …, 2023 - Springer
In this paper, the hybrid atomistic-continuum (HAC) method is used to investigate the
properties of fluid flow inside a cavity on different surfaces. To extract the microscopic …

Discussions on the correspondence of dissipative particle dynamics and Langevin dynamics at small scales

D Azarnykh, S Litvinov, X Bian, NA Adams - Applied Mathematics and …, 2018 - Springer
We investigate the behavior of dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) within different scaling
regimes by numerical simulations. The paper extends earlier analytical findings of Ripoll, M …

A Smooth Dissipative Particle Dynamics method for nonisothermal liquid and gas flows in bounded domains

J Yang, NA Gatsonis - Journal of Computational Physics, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract A Smoothed Dissipative Particle Dynamics formulation with dynamic virtual particle
allocation (SDPD-DV) is developed for the simulation of mesoscale nonisothermal flows with …

Domain decomposition methods for multiscale modeling

X Bian, M Praprotnik - … of Materials Modeling: Applications: Current and …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Domain decomposition methods (DDM), which originate from the Schwarz
alternating method to solve elliptic partial different equations, are largely extended and …