CCAM Seminar Series on "Mathematics and Numerics of Fluid Dynamics with an Emphasis on Complex Fluids" Title: Simulation of Complex Fluids using Dissipative Particle Dynamics Speaker: Professor George Karniadakis, Brown University Time and place: Friday March 2, 3:30pm at UNIV 103 Abstract: Dissipative Particle Dynamics (DPD) is a relatively new mesoscopic method particularly suitable for simulating biopolymers. It is a coarsed grained molecular dynamics method and exhibits both thermal fluctuations but also hydrodynamics behavior. In this presentation, I will review some of the recent advances but also the limitations due to boundary conditions and extreme coarse graining. Examples will be given for DNA dynamics in nanochannels and modeling of red blood cells at the nanometer scale. ------------------------------------- -- **************************************************************** Professor http://www.math.purdue.edu/~shen Department of Mathematics tel: 1-765-494-1923 Purdue University fax: 1-765-494-0548 West Lafayette, IN 47907 e-mail: shen@math.purdue.edu ***************************************************************