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
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.
Key words: Topical issue: Advances in Computational Methods for Soft Matter Systems
© The Author(s), 2018
