General introduction and programming protocols, Discrete element modeling, Contact rule for soft particles, Molecular dynamics simulation: hard and soft core potentials, Lenard-Jones potentials, Equation of motion, Conservation laws, Euler method, Runga-Kutta method, Predictor corrector method, Verlet algorithm; Monte-Carlo methods, Reverse Monte-Carlo analysis and reconstruction of the atomic ensemble from the diffraction data, Optimization techniques such as Genetic Algorithm (GA) and Simulated Annealing (SA).
Texts / Reference Books:
- K. Janssens, G. Frans, D. Rabbe, B. Nestler, E. Kozeschnik, M. Miodownik Computational Materials Engineering – An Introduction to Microstructure Evolution.
- M. P. Allen, D. J. Tildesley, Computer Simulation of Liquids.
- J. M. Haile, Molecular Dynamics Simulation: Elementary Methods.
- K. KesavaRao, Prabhu R. Nott, An Introduction to Granular Flow, K. KesavaRao.
- Dominik Marx, JürgHutter, Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics: Basic Theory and Advanced Methods.
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