A hybrid particle-continuum method for hydrodynamics of complex fluids

Multiscale Modeling and Simulation

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 871-911

  Donev, Aleksandar ^a,c   Bell, John B ^a   Garcia, Alejandro L ^b   Alder, Berni J ^c  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adiabatic piston; Direct simulation Monte Carlo; Fluctuating hydrodynamics; Hybrid methods

Indexed keywords

ADIABATIC PISTONS; COMPLEX FLUIDS; CONTINUUM INTERFACE; CONTINUUM METHOD; DENSE FLUID; DIRECT SIMULATION MONTE CARLO; DYNAMIC COUPLINGS; DYNAMIC STRUCTURE FACTORS; FINITE SYSTEMS; HYBRID ALGORITHMS; HYBRID METHOD; HYBRID PARTICLES; MACRO SCALE; MEAN DENSITY; MICRO-SCALES; MULTISCALE METHOD; MULTISCALE MODELS; NAVIER-STOKES SOLVER; NONEQUILIBRIUM RELAXATION; PARABOLIC PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PARTICLE FLUIDS; PARTICLE METHODS; SPHERICAL BEADS; STATE-BASED; SUBDOMAIN; THERMAL FLUCTUATIONS; THERMODYNAMIC EQUILIBRIA; THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; VELOCITY AUTOCORRELATION FUNCTIONS; WILLIAMS;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FLUID DYNAMICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 77951914064     PISSN: 15403459     EISSN: 15403467     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/090774501     Document Type: Article

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