Eur. Phys. J. E (2018) 41: 61
https://doi.org/10.1140/epje/i2018-11670-3

Regular Article

Simulating squirmers with multiparticle collision dynamics

¹ Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, 1 Keble Road, OX1 3NP, Oxford, UK
² Institute for Theoretical Physics, Technische Universität Berlin, Hardenbergstr. 36, 10623, Berlin, Germany

^* e-mail: andreas.zoettl@physics.ox.ac.uk

Received: 27 February 2018
Accepted: 23 April 2018
Published online: 15 May 2018

Abstract

Multiparticle collision dynamics is a modern coarse-grained simulation technique to treat the hydrodynamics of Newtonian fluids by solving the Navier-Stokes equations. Naturally, it also includes thermal noise. Initially it has been applied extensively to spherical colloids or bead-spring polymers immersed in a fluid. Here, we review and discuss the use of multiparticle collision dynamics for studying the motion of spherical model microswimmers called squirmers moving in viscous fluids.