title: Mesoscopic simulation of a thinning liquid bridge using the dissipative particle dynamics method.
abstract: In this research, the dissipative particle dynamics method was used to investigate the problem of thinning and breakup in a liquid bridge. It was found that both the inertial-force-dominated thinning process and the thermal-fluctuation-dominated thinning process can be reproduced with the dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) method by varying the simulation parameters. A highly suspect viscous thinning regime was also found, but the conclusion is not irrefutable because of the complication of the shear viscosity of DPD fluid. We show in this article that the DPD method can serve as a good candidate to elucidate crossover problem in liquid bridge thinning from being hydrodynamics dominated to being thermal fluctuation dominated.
authors.affiliation: School of Astronautics, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, P.R. China.
authors.forename: Chao-jie
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Mo
authors.affiliation: School of Astronautics, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, P.R. China.
authors.forename: Li-jun
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.affiliation: School of Astronautics, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, P.R. China.
authors.forename: Fei
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.affiliation: School of Astronautics, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, P.R. China.
authors.forename: Kun-da
authors.initials: KD
authors.lastname: Cui