ESPResSo

The logo of ESPResSo has been produced using ESPResSo itself.

ESPResSo is a software package for simulations of soft-matter systems, which is co-developed and used in the working group for most of its research.

ESPResSo is capable of doing classical Template:Wp simulations of many types of systems in different Template:Wps (NVE, NVT, NPT). It contains many advanced simulation algorithms (Lattice-Boltzmann). ESPResSo is controlled via Template:Wp scripts, which gives it a great flexibility.

Besides doing the regular research on different physical systems, the working group is constantly trying to improve and extend the ESPResSo software.

Coworkers

• Christian Holm: Project coordination
• Olaf Lenz: Core development
• the whole SimBio group: different contributions

Collaborators

• Max-Planck-Institut für Polymerforschung (MPI-P) in Mainz: ESPResSo has been originally developed in Christian Holm's group at the MPI-P, where it is hosted and where it is also developed.
• Hanjo Limbach (original developer) at Nestlé research, Lausanne, Switzerland
• Axel Arnold (original developer) at AMOLF, Amsterdam

Publications

• H. J. Limbach, A. Arnold, B. A. Mann, C. Holm.
  ESPResSo – An Extensible Simulation Package for Research on Soft Matter Systems.
  Computer Physics Communications 174(9):704–727, 2006.
  [PDF] (318 KB) [DOI]
• Axel Arnold, Bernward A. Mann, Christian Holm.
  Simulating Charged Systems with ESPResSo.
  In Computer Simulations in Condensed Matter: from Materials to Chemical Biology, pages 193–222. Edited by Mauro Ferrario, Giovanni Ciccotti, Kurt Binder. Part of Lecture Notes in Physics, volume 703.
  Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2006. ISBN: 3-540-35273-2.
  [PDF] (1.3 MB) [DOI]
• Axel Arnold, Bernward A. Mann, Hans Jörg Limbach, Christian Holm.
  ESPResSo – An Extensible Simulation Package for Research on Soft Matter Systems.
  In Forschung und wissenschaftliches Rechnen 2003.
  Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH, unknown year.
  [PDF] (393 KB) [URL]
• A. W. Arnold, B. A. Mann, H. J. Limbach, C. Holm.
  ESPResSo – An Extensible Simulation Package for Research on Soft Matter Systems.
  2003.
  entry for the \sc Heinz-Billing-Competition for the Advancement of Scientific Computation
  

Links

• http://www.espresso.mpg.de/ - Official ESPResSo web site