title: Coarse graining and scaling in dissipative particle dynamics.
abstract: Dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) is now a well-established method for simulating soft matter systems. However, its applicability was recently questioned because some investigations showed an upper coarse-graining limit that would prevent the applicability of the method to the whole mesoscopic range. This article aims to re-establish DPD as a truly mesoscopic method by analyzing the problems reported by other authors and by presenting a scaling scheme that allows one to apply DPD simulations directly to any desired length scale.
authors.affiliation: Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, University of Zürich, Switzerland. rudolf.fuechslin@ifi.uzh.ch
authors.forename: Rudolf M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Füchslin
authors.forename: Harold
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Fellermann
authors.forename: Anders
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Eriksson
authors.forename: Hans-Joachim
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Ziock
mesh_terms: D008956:Models, Chemical; D011312:Pressure; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013997:Time Factors