5. Tutorial guides

The following sections provide some background and advice on specific subjects. Early versions of some of this material were contributed by Fraser Mackay and Oliver Henrich.

• 5.1. Poisseuille Flow
  • 5.1.1. A simple exercise: Poisseuille flow in a Newtonian fluid in a cavity
• 5.2. Spinodal Decomposition
  • 5.2.1. Spinodal decomposition in a binary fluid
  • 5.2.2. Manipulating the output files
  • 5.2.3. Using Paraview
• 5.3. Liquid Crystal Output
  • 5.3.1. Liquid crystal order parameters
  • 5.3.2. Examples: processing LC output
  • 5.3.3. Example: visualising the scalar order parameter
• 5.4. Colloid Postprocessing
  • 5.4.1. Colloid output formats
  • 5.4.2. Visualising colloid positions
• 5.5. Lees Edwards BCs
  • 5.5.1. Background: Sheared molecular dynamics
  • 5.5.2. Background: Shear for lattice Boltzmann
  • 5.5.3. Practicalities: generating and analysing results
• 5.6. Electrokinetics
  • 5.6.1. Background: Poisson-Boltzmann approach
  • 5.6.2. Electrokinetic example problems
  • 5.6.3. General options