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Absorbing Boundary Conditions for Molecular Dynamics and Multiscale Modeling
We present an application of differential equation based local absorbing boundary conditions to molecular dynamics. The absorbing boundary conditions result in the absorbtion of the majority of waves incident perpendicular to the bounding surface. We demonstrate that boundary conditions developed for the wave equation can be applied to molecular dynamics. Comparisons with damping material boundary conditions are discussed. The concept is extended to the formulation of an atomistic-continuum multiscale scheme with handshaking between the regions based on absorbing boundary conditions. The multiscale model is effective in minimizing spurious reflections at the interface
Reactive Boundary Conditions as Limits of Interaction Potentials for Brownian and Langevin Dynamics
A popular approach to modeling bimolecular reactions between diffusing
molecules is through the use of reactive boundary conditions. One common model
is the Smoluchowski partial absorption condition, which uses a Robin boundary
condition in the separation coordinate between two possible reactants. This
boundary condition can be interpreted as an idealization of a reactive
interaction potential model, in which a potential barrier must be surmounted
before reactions can occur. In this work we show how the reactive boundary
condition arises as the limit of an interaction potential encoding a steep
barrier within a shrinking region in the particle separation, where molecules
react instantly upon reaching the peak of the barrier. The limiting boundary
condition is derived by the method of matched asymptotic expansions, and shown
to depend critically on the relative rate of increase of the barrier height as
the width of the potential is decreased. Limiting boundary conditions for the
same interaction potential in both the overdamped Fokker-Planck equation
(Brownian Dynamics), and the Kramers equation (Langevin Dynamics) are
investigated. It is shown that different scalings are required in the two
models to recover reactive boundary conditions that are consistent in the high
friction limit where the Kramers equation solution converges to the solution of
the Fokker-Planck equation.Comment: 23 pages, 2 figure
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