The diffusion process of a single spherical nanoparticle immersed in a fluid solvent is studied by molecular dynamics simulations. When the nanoparticle mass stays constant, it is shown that, at short times, the decay of the nanoparticle velocity autocorrelation function is strongly modified when the particle diameter increases. It is also shown that, at large times, the characteristic algebrai...

We review the apparently hydrodynamic behaviour of low transverse momentum particles (pT ≤ 1.5 GeV/c) produced in central and semicentral (b ≤ 7 fm) heavy ion collisions at RHIC. We investigate the impact parameter dependence of various observables, elaborating on radial and elliptic flow and particle multiplicities. We also discuss possible ambiguities in the initialization of the hydrodynamic...

Particle based methods for the description of hydrodynamic or fluid phenomena have attracted much interest during the last decade. Methods like the Multi-Particle Collision Dynamics method [1] (MPCD) or the Direct Simulation Monte Carlo method [2] (DSMC) represent schemes which close the gap between a purely microscopic description of matter, characterised by force fields, and a macroscopic con...

We prove rigorous inequalities for the hydrodynamic translational friction and mobility matrices z and mO of an arbitrarily shaped rigid particle in terms of the electrostatic capacitance C of a conducting particle of identical shape. Specifically, we derive the scalar and matrix inequalities 1 3 tr z −1ø 1 3 tr mOøC −1 and 2 3z −1øC −1 I, where all quantities are normalized by the correspondin...

A numerical procedure to determine the equivalent hydrodynamic dispersion coefficients and Péclet number (Pe) of a fractured rock is presented using random walk particle tracking method. The geometrical effects of fracture system on hydrodynamic dispersion are studied. The results obtained from the proposed method agree well with those of empirical models, which are the scale-dependent hydrodyn...

We simulate the far-from-equilibrium irreversible expansion of a compressed ideal gas in two space dimensions. For this problem the particle trajectories from conventional Smooth Particle Applied Mechanics are isomorphic to those from a corresponding molecular dynamics simulation. The smooth-particle \weight function", used to describe the expanding gas, is identical to the pair potential gover...

From the particle ratios and the transverse momentum spectra of hadrons in relativistic heavy ion collisions, one can obtain chemical freeze-out temperature T ch and thermal freeze-out temperature T th through the analyses of statistical models [1]. These temperatures are usually different from each other at the AGS, SPS and RHIC energies, i.e., T ch ∼ 160-200 MeV while T th ∼ 100-140 MeV. This...

When a microscopic particle moves through a low Reynolds number fluid, it creates a flow-field which exerts hydrodynamic forces on surrounding particles. In this work we study the 'Lissajous-like' trajectories of an optically trapped 'probe' microsphere as it is subjected to time-varying oscillatory hydrodynamic flow-fields created by a nearby moving particle (the 'actuator'). We show a breakin...

In this paper, the hydrodynamic mechanism of moving particles in laminar micro-channel flows was numerically investigated. A hydrodynamic criterion was proposed to determine whether particles in channel flows can form a focusing pattern or not. A simple formula was derived to demonstrate how the focusing position varies with Reynolds number and particle size. Based on this proposed criterion, a...