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Mesoscale Simulations of Fluid-Fluid Interfaces

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Fluid-fluid interfaces appear in numerous systems of academic and industrial interest. Their dynamics is difficult to track since they are usually deformable and of not a priori known shape. Computer simulations pose an attractive way to gain insight into the physics of interfaces. In this report we restrict ourselves to two classes of interfaces and their simulation by means of numerical schemes coupled to the lattice Boltzmann method as a solver for the hydrodynamics of the problem. These are the immersed boundary method for the simulation of vesicles and capsules and the Shan-Chen pseudopotential approach for multi-component fluids in combination with a molecular dynamics algorithm for the simulation of nanoparticle stabilized emulsions. The advantage of these algorithms is their inherent locality allowing to develop highly scalable codes which can be used to harness the computational power of the currently largest available supercomputers.

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Acknowledgements

Financial support is greatly acknowledged from NWO/STW (Vidi grant 10787 of J. Harting) and FOM/Shell IPP (09iPOG14 – “Detection and guidance of nanoparticles for enhanced oil recovery”). We thank the Gauss Center for Supercomputing and HLRS Stuttgart for the allocation of computating time on Hermit.

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  1. Department of Applied Physics, Eindhoven University of Technology, Den Dolech 2, 5600MB, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    T. Krüger, S. Frijters, F. Günther, B. Kaoui & Jens Harting

  2. School of Engineering, Institute for Materials and Processes, University of Edinburgh, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JL, Scotland, UK

    T. Krüger

  3. Theoretical Physics I, University of Bayreuth, Universitätsstrasse 30, 95447, Bayreuth, Germany

    B. Kaoui

  4. Institute for Computational Physics, University of Stuttgart, Allmandring 3, 70569, Stuttgart, Germany

    Jens Harting

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Krüger, T., Frijters, S., Günther, F., Kaoui, B., Harting, J. (2015). Mesoscale Simulations of Fluid-Fluid Interfaces. In: Nagel, W., Kröner, D., Resch, M. (eds) High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering ‘14. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10810-0_36

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