AUTHOR=Succi Sauro , Moradi Nasrollah , Greiner Andreas , Melchionna Simone 

TITLE=Lattice Boltzmann modeling of water-like fluids

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Physics

VOLUME=Volume 2 - 2014

YEAR=2014

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/physics/articles/10.3389/fphy.2014.00022

DOI=10.3389/fphy.2014.00022

ISSN=2296-424X

ABSTRACT=We review recent advances on the mesoscopic modeling of water-like fluids,<br/>based on the lattice Boltzmann (LB) methodology.<br/>The main idea is to enrich the basic LB (hydro)-dynamics with <br/>angular degrees of freedom responding to suitable directional potentials between water-like molecules.<br/>The model is shown to reproduce some microscopic features of liquid water, such as an average number <br/>of hydrogen bonds per molecules (HBs) between $3$ and $4$, as well as a qualitatively correct<br/>statistics of the hydrogen bond angle as a function of the temperature.<br/>Future developments, based on the coupling the present water-like LB model with the dynamics of suspended bodies,<br/>such as biopolymers, may open new angles of attack to the simulation of <br/>complex biofluidic problems, such as protein folding and aggregation, and <br/>the motion of large biomolecules in complex cellular environments.