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A Gear-like Predictor-Corrector method for Brownian Dynamics Simulation

Plasma Physics 2008-07-26 v2 Computational Physics

Abstract

We introduce a Predictor-Corrector type method suitable for performing many-particle Brownian Dynamics simulations. Since the method goes over to the Gear's method for Molecular Dynamics simulation in the limit of vanishing friction, we refer to it as a Gear-like algorithm. The algorithm has been tested on a one-dimensional, stochastically damped harmonic oscillator model, showing that it can cover a wide range of friction coefficients with a high-order accuracy, excellent stability, and a very small energy drift on the long time scales.

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@article{arxiv.0806.3912,
  title  = {A Gear-like Predictor-Corrector method for Brownian Dynamics Simulation},
  author = {Lu-Jing Hou and Z. L. Mišković},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0806.3912},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

New references added, Introduction and Conclusions sections re-written

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