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A Thermostat for Molecular Dynamics of Complex Fluids

Statistical Mechanics 2007-05-23 v1 Soft Condensed Matter

Abstract

A thermostat of the Nose-Hoover type, based on relative velocities and a local definition of the temperature, is presented. The thermostat is momentum-conserving and Galilean-invariant, which should make it suitable for use in Dissipative Particle Dynamics simulations, as well as nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulations.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0606511,
  title  = {A Thermostat for Molecular Dynamics of Complex Fluids},
  author = {Michael P. Allen and Friederike Schmid},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0606511},
  year   = {2007}
}

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Symposium on Progress and Future Prospects in Molecular Dynamics Simulation - In Memory of Professor Shuichi Nose