Simple numerical techniques for mesoscale polymer models

There exist various numerical techniques for modeling polymer behavior on small time and length scales. This work introduces some new techniques in this field, and shows novel new combinations of existing techniques. Among the new techniques are multiple new thermostats, a way of modeling polymers in non-integer dimensions and a simple way of introducing a non-trivial flow pattern in particle fluid simulations.
These methods will find their use in computer simulations of various small-scale systems where the objects described are large enough to be intractable with explicit modeling of atoms, but small enough to still require explicit modeling of thermal fluctuations. One can think of DNA molecules in a fluid, polymer solutions or small scale gel formation.