Colloidal hard spheres: Triumphs, challenges, and mysteries

CP Royall, P Charbonneau, M Dijkstra, J Russo… - Reviews of Modern …, 2024 - APS
The simplicity of hard spheres as a model system is deceptive. Although the particles
interact solely through volume exclusion, that nevertheless suffices for a wealth of static and …

A review on contact and collision methods for multi-body hydrodynamic problems in complex flows

S Karimnejad, AA Delouei, H Basagaoglu… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Modeling and direct numerical simulation of particle-laden flows have a tremendous variety
of applications in science and engineering across a vast spectrum of scales from pollution …

Accuracy and performance of the lattice Boltzmann method with 64-bit, 32-bit, and customized 16-bit number formats

M Lehmann, MJ Krause, G Amati, M Sega, J Harting… - Physical Review E, 2022 - APS
Fluid dynamics simulations with the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) are very memory
intensive. Alongside reduction in memory footprint, significant performance benefits can be …

[HTML][HTML] Lightweight lattice Boltzmann

A Tiribocchi, A Montessori, G Amati… - The Journal of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
A regularized version of the lattice Boltzmann method for efficient simulation of soft materials
is introduced. Unlike standard approaches, this method reconstructs the distribution …

LBcuda: A high-performance CUDA port of LBsoft for simulation of colloidal systems

F Bonaccorso, M Lauricella, A Montessori… - Computer Physics …, 2022 - Elsevier
We present LBcuda, a GPU accelerated version of LBsoft, our open-source MPI-based
software for the simulation of multi-component colloidal flows. We describe the design …

Heat flux from the surface in the process of the rupture of a thin liquid film by an electric field

AL Kupershtokh, DA Medvedev, AV Alyanov - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
In this article, the cooling of a solid surface by an evaporating film of a dielectric liquid and
the influence of an electric field on this process are studied. The mesoscopic lattice …

TLBfind: a Thermal Lattice Boltzmann code for concentrated emulsions with FINite-size Droplets

F Pelusi, M Lulli, M Sbragaglia, M Bernaschi - Computer Physics …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this paper, we present TLBfind, a GPU code for simulating the hydrodynamics of droplets
along with a dynamic temperature field. TLBfind hinges on a two-dimensional multi …

NanoTraPPED—A New Method for Determining the Surface Energy of Nanoparticles via Pickering Emulsion Polymerization

A Honciuc, OI Negru - Nanomaterials, 2021 - mdpi.com
Surface energy with its polar and disperse components describes the physicochemical state
of nanoparticles'(NPs) surfaces, and can be a valuable parameter for predicting their bulk …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular hydrodynamic theory of the velocity autocorrelation function

SL Seyler, CE Seyler - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The velocity autocorrelation function (VACF) encapsulates extensive information about a
fluid's molecular-structural and hydrodynamic properties. We address the following …

A passenger model for simulating boarding and alighting in spatially confined transportation scenarios

B Su, P Andelfinger, J Kwak, D Eckhoff, H Cornet… - Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Crowd simulation has been widely used as a tool to demonstrate the behavior of
passengers on public transport. A simulation model allows researchers to evaluate the …