Connecting Molecular Dynamics and Computational Fluid Dynamics

One of the most important developments in the last centuries is the process of miniaturisation and understanding everything that it entails. For the physical sciences this meant the continuing discovery what matter is and how it behaves, while from a practical point of view it meant that more advanced medical, scientific, and consumer applications could be developed. The successful development of miniaturisation requires careful planning, and computer simulations are helping with this aspect. However, continued miniaturisation also lead to several challenges concerning this matter. It is common knowledge that the world around us is made of atoms, however for general macroscopic phenomena, the concept of a continuum works very well. Instead of looking at individual atoms, the behaviour of the collection of a very large number of atoms is studied and is expressed in mathematical equations which can be solved accordingly. On the other hand, recent decades saw a lot of interest in nanotechnology, i.e. the study of phenomenon that happen at the nano-scale (