DPD News

* Idaho National Laboratory recently published a news article featuring their ongoing works collaborated with the CRUNCH group of Brown University via Dr. Zhen Li. This collaboration work was also tweeted, and was retweeted by U.S. Department of Energy. Brown University is their current research partner in the shale energy research, where the DPD methods developed in the CM4 project are used to develop a new way for investigating oil and gas extraction from shale.

* A new J. Chem. Phys. paper addressing the memory effect in DPD models derived from the Mori-Zwanzig formalism and iterative Boltzmann inversion has been selected as the Editor's Pick featured article. Click here to download the paper.

* The Videos of lectures and slides of the CM4 summer school on Multiscale Modeling of Materials held at Stanford University are available at the Virtual Resource Center.

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One of the main research areas of the CRUNCH group is to develop and employ stochastic multiscale computational techniques to diverse problems in complex fluids and soft matter. Currently, we are working on this research area developing different simulation techniques including Dissipative Particle Dynamics (DPD), Smooth DPD (SDPD), and Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) as well as concurrent coupling between these methods. The DPD Club meets weekly in the Division of Applied Mathematics at Brown University in order to provide opportunities for enhanced exchanges and collaborative research among researchers interested in DPD, either inside or outside of the group. Our main sponsors are the Department of Energy (DOE) via the Collaboratory on Mathematics for Mesoscopic Modeling of Materials (CM4) and the National Institute of Health.