On parallel nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulations of heat conduction in heterogeneous materials with three-body potentials: Si/Ge superlattice

Numerical Heat Transfer, Part B: Fundamentals

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 297-321

  Srinivasan, S ^a,b   Miller, R S ^a  

^a Clemson University   (United States)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT CONDUCTION;

PARALLEL NONEQUILIBRIUM; PARALLEL NONEQUILIBRIUM MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; STILLINGER WEBER POTENTIAL;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 34548136585     PISSN: 10407790     EISSN: 15210626     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10407790701347753     Document Type: Article

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