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What is KAPSEL?

  • KAPSEL means Kyoto Advanced Particle Simulator for Electro-hydrodynamics based on a direct numerical simulation method for colloidal dispersions called SPM (Smoothed Profile Method). KAPSEL is degined to simulate dynamics of solid particles dispersed in simple and complex fluids. KAPSEL enables us to simulate complecx rheological properties of colloidal dispersions, electrophoresis of charged colloids, etc.
  • KAPSEL-2 is the latest version of KAPSEL. It enables us to introduce thermal fluctuations to the system and also to perform rheology simulations under steady or oscillatory shear flow being compatible fully with periodic boundary conditions. Computational efficiency is much improved from the original KAPSEL so that one can perform larger scale simulations.

NEWS

  • KAPSEL-2
    • [1* Aug 2009] KAPSEL-2 released.
  • [31 May 2006] KAPSEL released.

Related Papers

  • Simulation method & algorithm
    • Yasuya Nakayama, Kang Kim and Ryoichi Yamamoto, Simulating (electro) hydrodynamic effects in colloidal dispersions: smoothed profile method, Eur. Phys. J. E, 26, 361-368 (2008).