Lees-Edwards boundary conditions
Lees-Edwards boundary conditions are an adaptation of standard periodic boundary conditions for molecular dynamics simulations of shear flow [1]. They are convenient for e.g. simulations of Couette flow.
References
Related reading
- Couette Flow and Shear Viscosity, in Denis J. Evans and Gary P. Morriss "Statistical Mechanics of Nonequilibrium Liquids" ANU E Press (2007) ISBN 9780521857918
- Sanjeev R. Rastogi and Norman J. Wagner "A parallel algorithm for Lees-Edwards boundary conditions", Parallel Computing 22 pp. 895-901 (1996)
- Hideki Kobayashi and Ryoichi Yamamoto "Implementation of Lees–Edwards periodic boundary conditions for direct numerical simulations of particle dispersions under shear flow", Journal of Chemical Physics 134 064110 (2011)