Modeling Dynamical Geometry with Lattice-Gas Automata

Abstract

Conventional lattice-gas automata consist of particles moving discretely on a fixed lattice. While such models have been quite successful for a variety of fluid flow problems, there are other systems, e.g., flow in a flexible membrane or chemical self-assembly, in which the geometry is dynamical and coupled to the particle flow. Systems of this type seem to call for lattice gas models with dynamical geometry. We construct such a model on one-dimensional (periodic) lattices and describe some simulations illustrating its nonequilibrium dynamics.