Self‐propelled micro/nanoparticle motors

M Guix, SM Weiz, OG Schmidt… - Particle & Particle …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The growing interest in the design and fabrication of novel autonomous micro‐and
nanoparticles is motivated by the vast advances in their motion efficiency and their further …

Modeling hydrodynamic interactions in soft materials with multiparticle collision dynamics

MP Howard, A Nikoubashman, JC Palmer - Current Opinion in Chemical …, 2019 - Elsevier
Multiparticle collision dynamics (MPCD) is a flexible and robust mesoscale computational
technique for simulating solvent-mediated hydrodynamic interactions in soft materials. Here …

Particle dynamics modeling methods for colloid suspensions

DS Bolintineanu, GS Grest, JB Lechman… - Computational Particle …, 2014 - Springer
We present a review and critique of several methods for the simulation of the dynamics of
colloidal suspensions at the mesoscale. We focus particularly on simulation techniques for …

Mesoscale simulations of hydrodynamic squirmer interactions

IO Götze, G Gompper - Physical Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft …, 2010 - APS
The swimming behavior of self-propelled microorganisms is studied by particle-based
mesoscale simulations. The simulation technique includes both hydrodynamics and thermal …

Modelling the mechanics and hydrodynamics of swimming E. coli

J Hu, M Yang, G Gompper, RG Winkler - Soft matter, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
The swimming properties of an E. coli-type model bacterium are investigated by mesoscale
hydrodynamic simulations, combining molecular dynamics simulations of the bacterium with …

Physical sensing of surface properties by microswimmers–directing bacterial motion via wall slip

J Hu, A Wysocki, RG Winkler, G Gompper - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Bacteria such as Escherichia coli swim along circular trajectories adjacent to surfaces.
Thereby, the orientation (clockwise, counterclockwise) and the curvature depend on the …

Hydrodynamic simulations of self-phoretic microswimmers

M Yang, A Wysocki, M Ripoll - Soft matter, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
A mesoscopic hydrodynamic model to simulate synthetic self-propelled Janus particles
which is thermophoretically or diffusiophoretically driven is here developed. We first propose …

Hydrodynamically Controlled Self‐Organization in Mixtures of Active and Passive Colloids

IP Madden, L Wang, J Simmchen, E Luijten - Small, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Active particles are known to exhibit collective behavior and induce structure in a variety of
soft‐matter systems. However, many naturally occurring complex fluids are mixtures of active …

Hydrodynamic correlations in multiparticle collision dynamics fluids

CC Huang, G Gompper, RG Winkler - … E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter …, 2012 - APS
The emergent fluctuating hydrodynamics of the multiparticle collision dynamics (MPC)
approach, a particle-based mesoscale simulation technique for fluid dynamics, is analyzed …

Diffusion and sedimentation in colloidal suspensions using multiparticle collision dynamics with a discrete particle model

YM Wani, PG Kovakas, A Nikoubashman… - The Journal of …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
We study self-diffusion and sedimentation in colloidal suspensions of nearly hard spheres
using the multiparticle collision dynamics simulation method for the solvent with a discrete …