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Department Atomistic Modelling and Simulation
Research Group

Theory and Simulation of Complex Fluids

The group’s research interest includes various physical phenomena in fluidic environments.


Fathollah VarnikRUB, Marquard
apl. Prof. Dr. Fathollah Varnik

Research Group Leader

Room: 02-505
Tel.: +49 234 32 29194
E-Mail: fathollah.varnik@rub.de




Research

Two examples from our recent activity are hemodynamics of blood flow through aneurysms and heat-exchange in flows through packed arrangements of solid bodies. In studying blood flow through constrictions and aneurysms, the group uses a hybrid numerical tool based on a combination of the lattice Boltzmann method as fluid dynamics solver with the finite element approach to update the dynamics of blood vessel and particular objects such as red blood cells. For the study of combustion phenomena in flows through packed beds, a modified version of the lattice Boltzmann method has been adapted which allows accounting for large changes of fluid density due to local heating, which arises from chemical reactions.
Here, the group is also conducting fundamental theoretical work and is establishing the connection between macroscopic equations that govern the change of species mass due to chemical reactions, energy production and mass and heat transport, on the one hand, and diffuse interface methods such as the phase field approach, on the other hand. As to the study of amorphous materials, molecular dynamics simulations are used to address the shape memory effect in polymers and the connection between the structure and the mechanical properties (e.g., ductility) in bulk metallic glasses.

Time-averaged wall shear stress (WSS) (the two top-left images) and oscillatory shear index (OSI) (the two top-right images) fields in the presence of degradation for a patient-specific aneurysm geometry (C0034 in Aneurisk dataset repository (Aneurisk-Team, 2012). The two images on the bottom left show degradation-induced relative changes in WSS and OSI. The remaining two images (bottom right) depict the corresponding changes in endothelial cell activation potential (ECAP).
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The complex fluids group’s work is almost always performed in collaboration with other partners to take advantage of their complementary expertise. Some examples here are the study of tissue degradation in aneurysms (D. Balzani, Institute of Mechanics, RUB), work on the ways to improve ductility in metallic glasses (G. Wilde, Institute of Materials Physics, University of Münster), study of additive effects on recovery processes in shape memory polymers (G. Eggeler, Institute of Materials, RUB), and numerical simulations of heat transfer in packed beds (Dominique Thévenin, Otto-von-Guericke-University, Magdeburg, and Benoît Fond, ONERA, Paris).

Competences

  • Modelling Multiphase flows
  • Molecular dynamics of polymers
  • Hybrid lattice Boltzmann-phase field modelling
  • Numerical models to study combustion and heat transfer
Members
  • Namdar, M.Sc. Reza
  • Varnik, apl. Prof. Dr. Fathollah
Recent Publications
  • M. Bruns. Simulating and characterizing cryogenic thermal cycling of a model glass former via molecular dynamics simulations. PhD Thesis, Ruhr Universität Bochum, (2023)
  • A. Lagogianni, F. Varnik. Temperature rise inside shear bands in a simple model glass. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 23, 12159, (2022)
  • M. Bruns, F. Varnik. Enhanced dynamics in deep thermal cycling of a model glass. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 156, 234501, (2022)
  • H. Wang, K. Uhlmann, V. Vedula et al. Fluid-structure interaction simulation of tissue degradation and its effects on intra-aneurysm hemodynamics. Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, 21, 671–683, (2022)
  • H. Wang. Computational study of hemodynamic changes associated with morphology, deformability and degradation of blood vessels. PhD Thesis, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung, (2022)
  • A. Grünebohm, M. Marathe, R. Khachaturyan et al. Interplay of domain structure and phase transitions: theory, experiment and functionality. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 34, 073002, (2022)

All publications

Research Examples

Improved ductility in metallic glasses via cryogenic cycling

An important research focus has been on new mechanical and thermal processing procedures with the aim of improving the ductility of bulk metallic glasses.

Teaser B1
Additive effects on shape memory polymers

The role of conformational degrees of freedom for the one-way effect in shape memory polymers is directly evidenced via molecular dynamics simulations.

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