Event-driven molecular dynamics

Event-driven molecular dynamics is often used to simulate hard or piecewise continuous models (rather than the more familiar time-driven molecular dynamics used for soft models). An example of an event is a collision. One of the first examples of the use of such an algorithm was in the study of hard disks in 1959 . The application of event-driven molecular dynamics to non-circular/spherical particles is substantially more challenging

See also

• DYNAMO an open-source event-driven simulation code written by Dr. Marcus Bannerman

References

Related reading

• Aleksandar Donev, Salvatore Torquato and Frank H. Stillinger "Neighbor list collision-driven molecular dynamics simulation for nonspherical hard particles.: II. Applications to ellipses and ellipsoids", Journal of Computational Physics 202 pp. 765-793 (2005)
• Marcus N. Bannerman and Leo Lue "Exact on-event expressions for discrete potential systems", Journal of Chemical Physics 133 124506 (2010)
• Thorsten Pöschel and Thomas Schwager "Computational Granular Dynamics: Models and Algorithms", Springer Berlin Heidelberg (2005) Chapter 3 pp. 135-189

External links

• HARD SPHERE MOLECULAR DYNAMICS PROGRAM example code (in FORTRAN) from M. P. Allen and D. J. Tildesley "Computer Simulation of Liquids", Oxford University Press (1989)