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Overview

Pep Español is affiliated with the National University of Distance Education in Spain. Their research spans several interconnected scientific fields, including Engineering, Physics and Astronomy, and Materials Science. Within these areas, their work focuses on subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Computational Mechanics, and Condensed Matter Physics.

Español's research addresses various topics related to the dynamics and properties of materials, advanced thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, dynamics and biomechanics in sports, mechanics and biomechanics studies, micro and nano robotics, granular flow, fluidized beds, and theoretical and computational physics.

Recent publications by Pep Español include:

  • "Non-local viscosity from the Green-Kubo formula," 2020, The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • "Non-affine motion and selection of slip coefficient in constitutive modeling of polymeric solutions using a mixed derivative," 2022, Journal of Rheology
  • "Statistical mechanics of the GENERIC framework under external forcing," 2023, The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • "The role of thermal fluctuations in the motion of a free body," 2023, European Journal of Mechanics - A/Solids
  • "Unraveling internal friction in a coarse-grained protein model," 2025, The Journal of Chemical Physics

Frequent co-authors of Español include:

  • J. A. de la Torre
  • David Nieto Simavilla
  • Marco Ellero
  • Mark Thachuk
  • D. Duque-Zumajo

The main publication venues where Español's work appears regularly are:

  • The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • European Journal of Mechanics - A/Solids
  • Journal of Rheology
  • Journal of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics

Español's contributions frequently involve interdisciplinary approaches, integrating concepts from statistical mechanics and thermodynamics with computational and experimental methodologies relevant for materials science and engineering applications.

Their research topics frequently address fundamental and applied questions in material dynamics, biomechanics and robotics at micro and nanoscale levels, as well as fluid dynamics phenomena related to granular materials and protein modeling.

Best Publications

  • Statistical Mechanics of Dissipative Particle Dynamics.

    P. Español;P. Warren

  • Smoothed dissipative particle dynamics.

    Pep Español;Mariano Revenga

  • Hydrodynamics from dissipative particle dynamics.

    Pep Español

  • Mori–Zwanzig formalism as a practical computational tool

    Carmen Hijón;Pep Español;Eric Vanden-Eijnden;Rafael Delgado-Buscalioni

  • Perspective: Dissipative particle dynamics

    Pep Español;Patrick B. Warren

  • Dissipative particle dynamics with energy conservation

    Pep Español

  • FLUID PARTICLE MODEL

    Pep Español

  • Smoothed particle hydrodynamics model for phase separating fluid mixtures. II. Diffusion in a binary mixture

    Cedric Thieulot;L P B M Janssen;Pep Español

  • Criticism of Feynman’s analysis of the ratchet as an engine

    Juan M. R. Parrondo;Pep Español

  • Hamiltonian adaptive resolution simulation for molecular liquids.

    Raffaello Potestio;Sebastian Fritsch;Pep Español;Rafael Delgado-Buscalioni

  • Boundary conditions in dissipative particle dynamics

    M. Revenga;I. Zúñiga;P. Español

  • Incompressible smoothed particle hydrodynamics

    Marco Ellero;Mar Serrano;Pep Español

  • Thermodynamically consistent mesoscopic fluid particle model.

    Mar Serrano;Pep Español

  • Boundary Models in DPD

    M. Revenga;I. Zúñiga;P. Español;I. Pagonabarraga

  • Derivation of dynamical density functional theory using the projection operator technique.

    Pep Español;Hartmut Löwen

  • Consistent scaling of thermal fluctuations in smoothed dissipative particle dynamics

    Adolfo Vázquez-Quesada;Marco Ellero;Pep Español

  • Force autocorrelation function in Brownian motion theory

    Pep Español;Ignacio Zúñiga

  • Large scale and mesoscopic hydrodynamics for dissipative particle dynamics

    M. Ripoll;M. H. Ernst;P. Español

  • Dissipative Particle Dynamics with Energy Conservation: Heat Conduction

    Marisol Ripoll;Pep Español;Matthieu H. Ernst

  • Thermodynamically Admissible Form for Discrete Hydrodynamics

    Pep Español;Mar Serrano;Hans Christian Öttinger

  • Monte carlo adaptive resolution simulation of multicomponent molecular liquids.

    Raffaello Potestio;Pep Español;Rafael Delgado-Buscalioni;Ralf Everaers

Frequent Co-Authors

Sauro Succi
Sauro Succi Italian Institute of Technology
Peter V. Coveney
Peter V. Coveney University College London
Davide Donadio
Davide Donadio University of California, Davis
Kurt Kremer
Kurt Kremer Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research
Jan G. Korvink
Jan G. Korvink Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Hartmut Löwen
Hartmut Löwen Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Yael Hanein
Yael Hanein Tel Aviv University
Eric Vanden-Eijnden
Eric Vanden-Eijnden Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Roger I. Tanner
Roger I. Tanner University of Sydney

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