Strongly overdamped Dissipative Particle Dynamics for fluid-solid systems

In this paper, a numerical scheme is used to study strongly-overdamped Dissipative Particles Dynamics (DPD) systems for the modelling of fluid-solid systems. In the scheme, the resultant set of algebraic equations for the velocities are directly solved in an iterative manner. Different test problems, e.g., viscometric flows, particulate suspensions and flows past a periodic square array of cylinders, are used to verify the proposed method. In the simulation of particulate suspensions, a new simple model for massless suspended particles is presented. A DPD fluid in the overdamped limit is shown to possess several attractive properties including much faster dynamic response and near-incompressibility. (C) 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.