Particle-Based Mesoscale Hydrodynamic Techniques

TL;DR

This paper introduces two new mesoscale hydrodynamic simulation methods, DPD-MT and MPC-LD, which combine features of DPD and MPC to better model thermal fluctuations and fluid viscosity.

Contribution

It proposes intermediate techniques between DPD and MPC, applying Langevin thermostats to enhance mesoscale hydrodynamic simulations.

Findings

Analytical derivation of MPC-LD viscosity

Good agreement between theory and numerical simulations

Enhanced modeling of thermal fluctuations in mesoscale fluids

Abstract

Dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) and multi-particle collision (MPC) dynamics are powerful tools to study mesoscale hydrodynamic phenomena accompanied by thermal fluctuations. To understand the advantages of these types of mesoscale simulation techniques in more detail, we propose new two methods, which are intermediate between DPD and MPC -- DPD with a multibody thermostat (DPD-MT), and MPC-Langevin dynamics (MPC-LD). The key features are applying a Langevin thermostat to the relative velocities of pairs of particles or multi-particle collisions, and whether or not to employ collision cells. The viscosity of MPC-LD is derived analytically, in very good agreement with the results of numerical simulations.