NO-SLIP BOUNDARY CONDITION IN DISSIPATIVE PARTICLE DYNAMICS

S. M. Willemsen (), H. C. J. Hoefsloot () and P. D. Iedema ()
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S. M. Willemsen: Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Amsterdam, Nieuwe Achtergracht 166, 1018 WV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
H. C. J. Hoefsloot: Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Amsterdam, Nieuwe Achtergracht 166, 1018 WV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
P. D. Iedema: Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Amsterdam, Nieuwe Achtergracht 166, 1018 WV Amsterdam, The Netherlands

International Journal of Modern Physics C (IJMPC), 2000, vol. 11, issue 05, 881-890

Abstract: Dissipative Particle Dynamics (DPD) has, with only a few exceptions, been used to study hydrodynamic behavior of complex fluids without confinement. Previous studies used a periodic boundary condition, and only bulk behavior can be studied effectively. However, if solid walls play an important role in the problem to be studied, a no-slip boundary condition in DPD is required. Until now the methods used to impose a solid wall consisted of a frozen layer of particles. If the wall density is equal to the density of the simulated domain, slip phenomena are observed. To suppress this slip, the density of the wall has to be increased. We introduce a new method, which intrinsically imposes the no-slip boundary condition without the need to artificially increase the density in the wall. The method is tested in both a steady-state and an instationary calculation. If repulsion is applied in frozen particle methods, density distortions are observed. We propose a method to avoid these distortions. Finally, this method is tested against conventional computational fluid dynamics (CFD) calculations for the flow in a lid-driven cavity. Excellent agreement between the two methods is found.

Keywords: Dissipative Particle Dynamics; Boundary Condition; Cavity Flow (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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