P. Español and P. Warren 1995 Europhys. Lett. 30 191 doi:10.1209/0295-5075/30/4/001
P. Español1,3 and P. Warren2
Show affiliationsThe stochastic differential equations corresponding to the updating algorithm of Dissipative Particle Dynamics (DPD), and the corresponding Fokker-Planck equation are derived. It is shown that a slight modification to the algorithm is required before the Gibbs distribution is recovered as the stationary solution to the Fokker-Planck equation. The temperature of the system is then directly related to the noise amplitude by means of a fluctuation-dissipation theorem. However, the correspondingly modified, discrete DPD algorithm is only found to obey these predictions if the length of the time step is sufficiently reduced. This indicates the importance of time discretisation in DPD.
Issue 4 (1 May 1995)
Received 22 December 1994
P. Español and P. Warren 1995 Europhys. Lett. 30 191
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