| Autor: |
Schlick, Tamar, Figueroa, Samuel, Mezei, Mihaly |
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Journal of Chemical Physics; 2/1/1991, Vol. 94 Issue 3, p2118, 12p |
| Abstrakt: |
Results are presented from potential energy minimization of water clusters and from molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulations of a liquid water droplet model. A new method for molecular dynamics—the implicit-Euler/Langevin scheme—is used in combination with a truncated Newton minimizer for potential energy functions. Structural and thermodynamic properties are reported for the scheme (with time steps of 5 and 10 fs), compared to a standard explicit formulation (with Δt=1 fs), to a Monte Carlo simulation, and to available experimental data. Results demonstrate that the implicit scheme is computationally feasible for large-scale biomolecular simulations, and that the droplet model can reasonably reproduce general structural features of liquid water. Results also show that the desired behavior is obtained from the implicit formulation: stability over large time steps, and effective damping of the high-frequency vibrational modes. Thus, major ‘‘bulk’’ properties of the system of interest may be observed more rapidly. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Databáze: |
Complementary Index |
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