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CPP: Fachverband Chemische Physik und Polymerphysik
CPP 11: Modelling and Simulation of Soft Matter
CPP 11.9: Talk
Monday, March 20, 2017, 17:15–17:30, ZEU 255
An improved dissipative coupling scheme for a system of Molecular Dynamics particles interacting with a Lattice Boltzmann fluid — •Nikita Tretyakov1 and Burkhard Duenweg1,2,3 — 1Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany — 2Institute for Solid State Physics, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany — 3Department of Chemical Engineering, Monash University, Australia
We consider the dissipative coupling between a stochastic Lattice Boltzmann (LB) fluid and a particle-based Molecular Dynamics (MD) system, as it was first introduced by Ahlrichs and Duenweg (J. Chem. Phys. 111 (1999) 8225). The fluid velocity at the position of a particle is determined by interpolation, such that a Stokes friction force gives rise to an exchange of momentum between the particle and the surrounding fluid nodes. For efficiency reasons, the LB time step is chosen as a multiple of the MD time step, such that the MD system is updated more frequently than the LB fluid. In this situation, there are different ways to implement the coupling: Either the fluid velocity at the surrounding nodes is only updated every LB time step, or it is updated every MD step. It is demonstrated that the latter choice, which enforces momentum conservation on a significantly shorter time scale, is clearly superior in terms of stability and accuracy, and nevertheless only marginally slower in terms of execution speed. The second variant is therefore the recommended implementation.