The DPD Alphabet for Mesoscopic Modeling

Co-authors: Zhen Li, Xin Bian, Xuejin Li, Mingge Deng, Yu-Hang Tang, Bruce Caswell

Dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) is a particle-based Lagrangian method for simulating dynamic and rheological properties of simple and complex fluids at mesoscopic length and time scales. In this talk, we present the DPD technique, beginning from its original ad hoc formulation and subsequent theoretical developments. Next, we introduce various extensions of the DPD method that can model non-isothermal processes, diffusion-reaction systems, and ionic fluids. We will demonstrate the effectiveness of DPD to solve particle-fluid problems, which may not be tractable by continuum or atomistic approaches.

Bio:

Prof. Karniadakis is the the Charles Pitts Robinson and John Palmer Barstow Professor of Applied Mathematics at Brown University.