Atomic Picture of Plastic Deformation in Metals: Lab Assignment Handout

19 Jan 2010 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Alejandro Strachan

In this lab students will perform online molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of metallic nanowires deformed uniaxially and analyze the results...

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Computational Nanoscience, Homework Assignment 2: Molecular Dynamics Simulation of a Lennard-Jones Liquid

14 Feb 2008 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Elif Ertekin, Jeffrey C Grossman

The purpose of this assignment is to perform a full molecular dynamics simulation based on the Verlet algorithm to calculate various properties of a simple liquid, modeled as an ensemble of identical …

http://nanohub.org/resources/4052

Computational Nanoscience, Homework Assignment 3: Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Carbon Nanotubes

14 Feb 2008 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Elif Ertekin, Jeffrey C Grossman

The purpose of this assignment is to perform molecular dynamics simulations to calculate various properties of carbon nanotubes using LAMMPS and Tersoff potentials. This assignment is to be …

http://nanohub.org/resources/4054

Computational Nanoscience, Lecture 2: Introduction to Molecular Dynamics

30 Jan 2008 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Jeffrey C Grossman, Elif Ertekin

In this lecture, we present and introduction to classical molecular dynamics. Approaches to integrating the equations of motion (Verlet and other) are discussed, along with practical considerations …

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Computational Nanoscience, Lecture 4: Geometry Optimization and Seeing What You're Doing

13 Feb 2008 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Jeffrey C Grossman, Elif Ertekin

In this lecture, we discuss various methods for finding the ground state structure of a given system by minimizing its energy. Derivative and non-derivative methods are discussed, as well as the …

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Computational Nanoscience, Lecture 5: A Day of In-Class Simulation: MD of Carbon Nanostructures

13 Feb 2008 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Jeffrey C Grossman, Elif Ertekin

In this lecture we carry out simulations in-class, with guidance from the instructors. We use the LAMMPS tool (within the nanoHUB simulation toolkit for this course). Examples include calculating …

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Computational Nanoscience, Lecture 6: Pair Distribution Function and More on Potentials

13 Feb 2008 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Jeffrey C Grossman, Elif Ertekin

In this lecture we remind ourselves what a pair distribution function is, how to compute it, and why it is so important in simulations. Then, we revisit potentials and go into more detail including …

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REBO Nanofluidics Exercise

10 May 2006 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Susan Sinnott, Hetal Patel

Nanofluidics exercise showing the variation of energy and position of methane and butane molecules flowing through an opened carbon nanotube as the system temperature and the length of the nanotube …

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