Atomistic methods in fluid simulation

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 368, Issue 1916, 2010, Pages 1547-1560

  Kadau, Kai ^a   Barber, John L ^a   Germann, Timothy C ^a   Holian, Brad L ^a   Alder, Berni J ^b  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Direct simulation monte carlo; High performance computing; Molecular dynamics; Rayleigh taylor instability; Richtmyer Meshkov instability; SPASM

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; FLUIDS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; STABILITY;

ATOMISTIC METHODS; DIRECT SIMULATION MONTE CARLO; DYNAMICS SIMULATION; FLUID INSTABILITY; FLUID SIMULATIONS; HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; NAVIER STOKES; NONLINEAR TRANSPORT; RAYLEIGH-TAYLOR INSTABILITIES; RICHTMYER MESHKOV INSTABILITY; SIMULATION RESULT; STATE OF THE ART;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 77950922622     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2009.0218     Document Type: Article

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