Random generation of periodic hard ellipsoids based on molecular dynamics: a computationally-efficient algorithm

DOI10.1016/j.jcp.2013.07.004zbMath1349.65081OpenAlexW2008762786MaRDI QIDQ348151

Elias Ghossein, Martin Lévesque

Publication date: 5 December 2016

Published in: Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2013.07.004

zbMATH Keywords

molecular dynamicsbinary collisionshard ellipsoidshigh aspect ratiosorientations distributionrandom periodic packings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical aspects of computer graphics, image analysis, and computational geometry (65D18) Edge subsets with special properties (factorization, matching, partitioning, covering and packing, etc.) (05C70) Discrete geometry (52C99)

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Uses Software

• BRENT

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