%0 Journal Article
%T Lattice Boltzmann modeling of water-like fluids
%A Sauro Succi
%A Nasrollah Moradi
%A Andreas Greiner
%A Simone Melchionna
%J Frontiers in Physics
%D 2014
%I Frontiers Media
%R 10.3389/fphy.2014.00022
%X We review recent advances on the mesoscopic modeling of water-like fluids, based on the lattice Boltzmann (LB) methodology. The main idea is to enrich the basic LB (hydro)-dynamics with angular degrees of freedom responding to suitable directional potentials between water-like molecules. The model is shown to reproduce some microscopic features of liquid water, such as an average number of hydrogen bonds per molecules (HBs) between 3 and 4, as well as a qualitatively correct statistics of the hydrogen bond angle as a function of the temperature. Future developments, based on the coupling the present water-like LB model with the dynamics of suspended bodies, such as biopolymers, may open new angles of attack to the simulation of complex biofluidic problems, such as protein folding and aggregation, and the motion of large biomolecules in complex cellular environments.
%K water models
%K lattice boltzmann method
%K hydrogen bonds
%K energy minimization
%K mesoscopic models
%U http://www.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fphy.2014.00022/abstract