Periodic boundary condition induced breakdown of the equipartition principle and other kinetic effects of finite sample size in classical hard-sphere molecular dynamics simulation

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 125, Issue 16, 2006, Pages

  Shirts, Randall B ^a   Burt, Scott R ^a,b   Johnson, Aaron M ^a,b  

^a Brigham Young University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLISION ENERGY; FINITE SYSTEMS; REFLECTING WALLS; RELATIVE VELOCITY;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; KINETIC ENERGY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 33750474069     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2359432     Document Type: Article

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