2019 Volume 19 Issue 11 Pages 455-460
It is widely known that the dynamical and rheological properties of colloidal suspensions are under strong influence of hydrodynamic interactions among particles, but it is very difficult to elucidate their roles analytically. Thus, numerical simulation is a very powerful tool for studying them and a variety of numerical methods have been proposed. We developed a new method, which we named “Fluid Particle Dynamics”. Here we explain the basic principle of our method and show its application to the study of colloidal phase separation. Our study indicates not only the importance of hydrodynamic interactions but also the predictability of the dynamical behavior of colloidal suspensions.
