Numerical Methods for Polymeric Systems /

Polymers occur in many different states and their physical properties are strongly correlated with their conformations. The theoretical investigation of the conformational properties of polymers is a difficult task and numerical methods play an important role in this field. This book contains contri...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Whittington, Stuart G.
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 1998.
Series:IMA volumes in mathematics and its applications ; 102.
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Convergence rates for Monte Carlo experiments
  • Umbrella sampling and simulated tempering
  • Monte Carlo study of polymer systems by multiple Markov chain method
  • Measuring forces in lattice polymer simulations
  • A knot recognition algorithm
  • Geometrical entaglement in lattice models of ring polymers: Torsion and writhe
  • Oriented self-avoiding walks with orientation-dependent interactions
  • A Monte Carlo algorithm for studying the collapse transition in lattice animals
  • Monte Carlo simulation of the O-point in lattice trees
  • Molecular dynamics simulations of polymer systems
  • Dynamics of polymers near the theta point
  • Self diffusion coefficients and atomic mean-squared displacements in entangled hard chain fluids.