Philippe A. Bopp

Modeling and Simulations: Course materials and references



Glossary of terms (work in progress)
Autocorrelation function
Data analysis
Coulomb or electrostatic potential
Ewald summation
Force field
Fourier transformation
Lennard-Jones potential
Molecular Dynamics (MD)
Newton's equation
Normal modes
Numerical integration
Periodic boundary conditions
Partial charges
Philosophy
Quantum chemistry
Simulation
Site
Statistics
Thermal Equilibrium
Time correlation function


Other terms: Search with Google


Other resources on the WEB:

Potential Functions
  (lecture notes by Eckhard Spohr, Ulm)

Modeling
  (article by Peter Krüger, Leuven, with references)

Computer Simulations
 (course taught by Boris Veytsman and Michael J. Kotelyanskii, Penn State University)

A very good Molecular Dynamics Primer
 (course by Furio Ercolessi Università degli Studi di Udine

Links to animations / courses / problems ...



A list of books


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