A hybrid smoothed dissipative particle dynamics (SDPD) spatial stochastic simulation algorithm (sSSA) for

Drawert Brian1, Jacob Bruno2, Li Zhen3

  • 1Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Asheville, Asheville, North Carolina, 28804, USA.

Journal of Computational Physics
|April 30, 2019
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