A study on the measurement of mean velocity and its convergence in molecular dynamics simulations

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Volumn 67, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2130-2140

  Karimian, S M H ^a,b   Izadi, S ^a,b   Farimani, A Barati ^a,b  

^a Center of Excellence in Computational Aerospace Engineering   (Iran)

^b AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Molecular dynamics; Numerical simulation; Periodic boundary condition; Sampling and averaging; Solution convergence; Velocity measurement

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE VALUES; AVERAGING METHOD; CHAOTIC NATURE; CONVERGENCE CRITERION; LOCAL MEAN; MACROSCOPIC QUANTITIES; MEAN FLOW VELOCITIES; MEAN VELOCITIES; MICROSCOPIC BEHAVIOR; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; PARTICLE-BASED SIMULATION; PERIODIC BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; RANDOM PATHS; RELIABLE PERFORMANCE; SPECIFIC PROBLEMS; STATISTICAL ERRORS; TEMPORAL BEHAVIOR; TEST CASE;

CAMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DYNAMICS; FLOW VELOCITY; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; MEASUREMENTS; RANDOM ERRORS; VELOCITY; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 83255187977     PISSN: 02712091     EISSN: 10970363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/fld.2487     Document Type: Article

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