Simulation methods for particulate flows and concentrated suspensions

M Maxey - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Numerical simulations are extensively used to investigate the motion of suspended particles
in a fluid and their influence on the dynamics of the overall flow. Contexts range from the …

Water self-diffusion in CSH: Effect of confinement and temperature studied by molecular dynamics

T Honorio, H Carasek, O Cascudo - Cement and Concrete Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Despite the recent advances in the understanding of diffusion processes in CSH, there are
still open questions regarding the pore-size dependence of diffusion and associated …

Particle tracking of nanoparticles in soft matter

KA Rose, M Molaei, MJ Boyle, D Lee… - Journal of Applied …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Recent advances in optical microscopy instrumentation and processing techniques have led
to imaging that both breaks the diffraction barrier and enables sub-pixel resolution. This …

A viral packaging motor varies its DNA rotation and step size to preserve subunit coordination as the capsid fills

S Liu, G Chistol, CL Hetherington, S Tafoya… - Cell, 2014 - cell.com
Multimeric, ring-shaped molecular motors rely on the coordinated action of their subunits to
perform crucial biological functions. During these tasks, motors often change their operation …

Diffusion under confinement: Hydrodynamic finite-size effects in simulation

P Simonnin, B Noetinger, C Nieto-Draghi… - Journal of chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
We investigate finite-size effects on diffusion in confined fluids using molecular dynamics
simulations and hydrodynamic calculations. Specifically, we consider a Lennard-Jones fluid …

A coupled CFD-DEM approach to model particle-fluid mixture transport between two parallel plates to improve understanding of proppant micromechanics in hydraulic …

G Zhang, M Gutierrez, M Li - Powder Technology, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Computational Fluid Dynamics coupled with Discrete Element Method (CFD-DEM)
was used in this paper to model particle-liquid mixture transport between two parallel plates …

Hydrodynamics of suspensions of passive and active rigid particles: a rigid multiblob approach

F Balboa Usabiaga, B Kallemov, B Delmotte… - … in Applied Mathematics …, 2017 - msp.org
We develop a rigid multiblob method for numerically solving the mobility problem for
suspensions of passive and active rigid particles of complex shape in Stokes flow in …

Three-dimensional droplet manipulation with electrostatic levitation

C Liu, X Liu, Q Tang, W Zhou, Y Ma, Z Gong… - Analytical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
An active and precise method for three-dimensional (3D) droplet manipulation is introduced.
By modulating the local electrostatic force acting on droplets in carrier oil between needle …

Hydrodynamics control shear-induced pattern formation in attractive suspensions

Z Varga, V Grenard, S Pecorario… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Dilute suspensions of repulsive particles exhibit a Newtonian response to flow that can be
accurately predicted by the particle volume fraction and the viscosity of the suspending fluid …

An immersed boundary method for rigid bodies

B Kallemov, A Bhalla, B Griffith, A Donev - Communications in Applied …, 2016 - msp.org
We develop an immersed boundary (IB) method for modeling flows around fixed or moving
rigid bodies that is suitable for a broad range of Reynolds numbers, including steady Stokes …