Molecular Dynamics Simulation: An Overview
摘要
Molecular dynamics (MD) is a computational technique used to analyse the physical behaviour of material systems at the atomic scale. In an MD approach, the material system is considered as a group of rigid bodies (atoms), wherein the dynamic evolution of atoms is evaluated by numerically solving Newton’s equations of motion. This method is commonly used in biophysics, chemistry, and materials science to understand the fundamental causes of a system’s behaviour at the macro-molecular state.