A family of time-staggered schemes for integrating hybrid DPD models for polymers: Algorithms and applications
- Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, 182 George Street, Box F, Providence, RI 02912 (United States)
We propose new schemes for integrating the stochastic differential equations of dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) in simulations of dilute polymer solutions. The hybrid DPD models consist of hard potentials that describe the microscopic dynamics of polymers and soft potentials that describe the mesoscopic dynamics of the solvent. In particular, we develop extensions to the velocity-Verlet and Lowe's approaches - two representative DPD time-integrators - following a subcycling procedure whereby the solvent is advanced with a timestep much larger than the one employed in the polymer time-integration. The introduction of relaxation parameters allows optimization studies for accuracy while maintaining the low computational complexity of standard DPD algorithms. We demonstrate through equilibrium simulations that a 10-fold gain in efficiency can be obtained with the time-staggered algorithms without loss of accuracy compared to the non-staggered schemes. We then apply the new approach to investigate the scaling response of polymers in equilibrium as well as the dynamics of {lambda}-phage DNA molecules subjected to shear.
- OSTI ID:
- 20840354
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Computational Physics, Vol. 218, Issue 1; Other Information: DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2006.01.043; PII: S0021-9991(06)00061-1; Copyright (c) 2006 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0021-9991
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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