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For the theoretical physicist, molecular dynamics (MD) is a sort of ideal laboratory for testing a theory, the validity of some approximation scheme, etc… A nice aspect of this procedure is its generality: By setting up a microscopic model, with given interaction rules, and by specifying the nature of the boundary conditions and external forces, an MD experiment can be performed which, without corresponding closely to a real world system, captures nevertheless some essential aspects of the phenomenon of interest. For instance, hard sphere or hard disk fluids have been used since the early development of MD1. Another example is the so called “Lorentz gas”, where the trajectory of a single molecule around randomly distributed scatterers is studied through MD2.
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Mansour, M.M. (1990). A Simple Model of Hydrodynamic Instability. In: Mareschal, M. (eds) Microscopic Simulations of Complex Flows. NATO ASI Series, vol 236. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-1339-7_13
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