ESPResSo++: A modern multiscale simulation package for soft matter systems

Computer Physics Communications

Volumn 184, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1129-1149

  Halverson, Jonathan D ^a,d   Brandes, Thomas ^b   Lenz, Olaf ^a,e   Arnold, Axel ^b,e   Bevc, Staš ^c   Starchenko, Vitaliy ^a,f   Kremer, Kurt ^a   Stuehn, Torsten ^a   Reith, Dirk ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR ALGORITHMS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SCAI   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovenia)

^d BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^f INSTITUTE OF BIOCOLLOID CHEMISTRY   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Adaptive resolution schemes; Extensible; Molecular dynamics; Monte Carlo; Simulation; Soft matter

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RESOLUTION; EXTENSIBLE; MONTE CARLO; SIMULATION; SOFT MATTER;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; USER INTERFACES;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 84873144251     PISSN: 00104655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpc.2012.12.004     Document Type: Article

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