2007/03/26 by Rudolf M. Füchslin, Rudolf Marcel Füchslin, Füchslin, Rudolf M. +6
Chemistry · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Block Copolymer Self-Assembly #Electrostatics and Colloid Interactions #FOS: Physical sciences #Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft) #Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech) #Theoretical and Computational Physics #cond-mat.soft #cond-mat.stat-mech
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/0703682
8 pages, 3 figures -- major changes to the text, simulations added
openalex publication_date 2007/03/26 · arxiv created 2007/08/10 · arxiv updated 2011/11/09 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) is now a well-established method for simulating soft matter systems. However, its applicability was recently questioned because some investigations showed an upper coarse-graining limit that would prevent the applicability of the method to the whole mesoscopic range. This article aims to reestablish DPD as a truly scale-free method by analyzing the problems reported by other authors and by presenting a scaling scheme that allows one to gauge a DPD-simulation to any desired length scale.