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It is very common with molecular dynamics and other simulation techniques to apply Lees-Edwards periodic boundary conditions (PBCs) for the simulation of shear flow. However the behavior of a complex liquid can be quite different under…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-10-16 Thomas A. Hunt

Periodic Boundary Conditions (PBC) introduce well-known lattice artifacts. We present a novel Pseudoperiodic Spherical Boundary Condition (SBC) that is perfectly isotropic. Through detailed comparative simulations, we demonstrate that SBC…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-11 Manuel Dedola , Ludovico Cademartiri

We develop an algorithm for bosonic path integral molecular dynamics (PIMD) simulations with periodic boundary conditions (PBC) that scales quadratically with the number of particles. Path integral methods are a powerful tool to simulate…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Jacob Higer , Yotam M. Y. Feldman , Barak Hirshberg

Lees Edwards boundary conditions (LEbc) for Molecular Dynamics simulations are an extension of the well known periodic boundary conditions and allow the simulation of bulk systems in a simple shear flow. We show how the idea of LEbc can be…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander J. Wagner , Ignacio Pagonabarraga

This work presents a generalization of the Kraynik-Reinelt (KR) boundary conditions for nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulations. In the simulation of steady, homogeneous flows with periodic boundary conditions, the simulation box…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-22 Matthew Dobson

Many nanostructures today are low-dimensional and flimsy, and therefore get easily distorted. Distortion-induced symmetry-breaking makes conventional, translation-periodic simulations invalid, which has triggered developments for new…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-10-19 Oleg O. Kit , Lars Pastewka , Pekka Koskinen

In this paper we develop a stochastic boundary conditions (SBC) for event-driven molecular dynamics simulations of a finite volume embedded within an infinite environment. In this method, we first collect the statistics of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2011-12-21 M. Prusty , S. A. Cheong

This paper reviews the state of the art of periodic boundary conditions (PBCs) in Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) simulations. The mathematical principles and 3D FDTD implementation details are systematically outlined. Techniques for…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-06 Aaron J. Kogon , Costas D. Sarris

This work discusses the correct modeling of the fully nonlinear free surface boundary conditions to be prescribed in water waves flow simulations based on potential flow theory. The main goal of such a discussion is that of identifying a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-06 Andrea Mola , Nicola Giuliani , Óscar Crego , Gianluigi Rozza

Periodic boundary conditions are commonly applied in molecular dynamics simulations in the microcanonical (NVE), canonical (NVT) and isothermal-isobaric (NpT) ensembles. In their simplest application, a biological system of interest is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-06-09 Radek Erban , Yuichi Togashi

We provide a framework to build periodic boundary conditions on the pseudosphere (or hyperbolic plane), the infinite two-dimensional Riemannian space of constant negative curvature. Starting from the common case of periodic boundary…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-11-26 François Sausset , Gilles Tarjus

We analyze the hydrodynamic stability of force-driven parallel shear flows in nonequilibrium molecular simulations with three-dimensional periodic boundary conditions. We show that flows simulated in this way can be linearly unstable, and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-06-24 Michael P. Howard , Antonia Statt , Howard A. Stone , Thomas M. Truskett

Motivated by modelling rotating turbulence in planetary fluid layers, we investigate precession-driven flows in ellipsoids subject to stress-free boundary conditions (SF-BC). The SF-BC could indeed unlock numerical constraints associated…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-01-10 J. Vidal , D. Cébron

A new scheme is presented for imposing periodic boundary conditions on unit cells with arbitrary source distributions. We restrict our attention here to the Poisson, modified Helmholtz, Stokes and modified Stokes equations. The approach…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-02 Ruqi Pei , Travis Askham , Leslie Greengard , Shidong Jiang

Bifurcation problems in which periodic boundary conditions (PBC) or Neumann boundary conditions (NBC) are imposed often involve partial differential equations that have Euclidean symmetry. In this case posing the bifurcation problem with…

patt-sol · Physics 2008-02-03 John David Crawford

We present a method to impose linear shear flow in discrete-velocity kinetic models of hydrodynamics through the use of sliding periodic boundary conditions. Our method is derived by an explicit coarse-graining of the Lees-Edwards boundary…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Adhikari , J. -C. Desplat , K. Stratford

A general derivation is proposed for several boundary conditions arisen in the lattice Boltzmann simulations of various physical problems. Pair-wise moment conservations are proposed to enforce the boundary conditions with given macroscopic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-10-16 Jun Li , Wai Hong Ronald Chan , Zhe Feng , Chenglei Wang

The simulation of blood flow and pressure in arteries requires outflow boundary conditions that incorporate models of downstream domains. We previously described a coupled multidomain method to couple analytical models of the downstream…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-07-17 Irene Vignon-Clementel , C. A. Figueroa , K. E. Jansen , C. A. Taylor

We present the derivation of a new unidirectional model for We present the derivation of a new unidirectional model for unsteady mixed flows in non uniform closed water pipes. We introduce a local reference frame to take into account the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-06-02 Christian Bourdarias , Mehmet Ersoy , Stéphane Gerbi

This paper presents a spatially and temporally adaptive boundary condition to specify the volumetric flux for lattice Boltzmann methods. The approach differs from standard velocity boundary conditions because it allows the velocity to vary…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-06-28 James E. McClure , Zhe Li , Adrian P. Sheppard , Cass T. Miller
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