A guide to modeling mesoscale membrane deformations with coarse-grained computer simulations

This repository contains ready-to-run tutorials on the simulation tests presented in the membrane review by M. Muñoz-Basagoiti, F. Frey, B. Meadowcroft, M. Amaral, A. Prada, and A. Saric¹ (2502.09798; Soft Matter, 2025).

Table of contents

1. Tutorials
   1. Three-beads-per-lipid membrane: Cooke model
   2. One-particle thick fluid membrane: YLZ model
   3. Dynamically triangulated membrane model I: Monte Carlo simulations with C code
   4. Dynamically triangulated membrane model II: Parallelized Hybrid Monte Carlo simulations with TriLMP
2. Reporting bugs and feedback

Tutorials

1. Three-beads-per-lipid membrane: Cooke model

See respective folder.

2. One-particle thick fluid membrane: YLZ model

See respective folder.

3. Dynamically triangulated membrane model I: Monte Carlo simulations with C code

See respective folder.

4. Dynamically triangulated membrane model II: Parallelized HMC simulations with TriLMP

See respective folder.

Reporting bugs and feedback

Please report any bugs. Feedback on how to improve these tutorials is welcome.

Footnotes

1. Munoz-Basagoiti, Frey, Meadowcroft, Amaral, Prada and Saric, A guide to modeling mesoscale membrane deformations with coarse-grained computer simulations (Soft Matter, 2025) ↩