For a quick (but comprehensive) overview of our simulation methods, see the PDF background guides:
- Intro to DPD
- Modifying DPD for colloids simulations
- Morse Potential
- Applying shear to colloid simualtion
For more background on DPD itself, see these research papers:
- General DPD infromation: Groot & Warren "Dissipative particle dynamics: Bridging the gap between atomistic and mesoscopic simulation" (1997)
For more background on our simulation methods, see these research papers:
- Origin of our hydrodynamics calculations: Ball & Melrose "A simulation technique for many spheres in quasi-static motion under frame-invariant pair drag and Brownian forces" (1997)
- Colloidal DPD: Jamali & Boromand "Microstructure and rheology of soft to rigid shear-thickening colloidal suspensions" (2015)
- Shearing: Boromand, Jamali, & Maia "Viscosity measurement techniques in Dissipative Particle Dynamics" (2015)
- DPD structure/mechanics relations: Jamali, McKinley, & Armstrong "Microstructural Rearrangements and their Rheological Implications in a Model Thixotropic Elastoviscoplastic Fluid" (2017)
- Gelation: Jamali, Armstrong, & McKinley "Time-rate-transformation framework for targeted assembly of short-range attractive colloidal suspensions" (2020)
- Shear rate affect on structure: "Life and death of colloidal bonds control the rate-dependent rheology of gels" (2021)