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Time-Reversible Random Number Generators : Solution of Our Challenge by Federico Ricci-Tersenghi
Nearly all the evolution equations of physics are time-reversible, in the
sense that a movie of the solution, played backwards, would obey exactly the
same differential equations as the original forward solution. By way of
contrast, stochastic approaches are typically not time-reversible, though they
could be made so by the simple expedient of storing their underlying
pseudorandom numbers in an array. Here we illustrate the notion of
time-reversible random number generators. In Version 1 we offered a suitable
reward for the first arXiv response furnishing a reversed version of an only
slightly-more-complicated pseudorandom number generator. Here we include
Professor Ricci-Tersenghi's prize-winning reversed version as described in his
arXiv:1305.1805 contribution: "The Solution to the Challenge in
`Time-Reversible Random Number Generators' by Wm. G. Hoover and Carol G.
Hoover".Comment: Seven pages with a single Figure, dedicated to the memories of our
late colleague Ian Snoo
Three Lectures: Nemd, Spam, and Shockwaves
We discuss three related subjects well suited to graduate research. The
first, Nonequilibrium molecular dynamics or "NEMD", makes possible the
simulation of atomistic systems driven by external fields, subject to dynamic
constraints, and thermostated so as to yield stationary nonequilibrium states.
The second subject, Smooth Particle Applied Mechanics or "SPAM", provides a
particle method, resembling molecular dynamics, but designed to solve continuum
problems. The numerical work is simplified because the SPAM particles obey
ordinary, rather than partial, differential equations. The interpolation method
used with SPAM is a powerful interpretive tool converting point particle
variables to twice-differentiable field variables. This interpolation method is
vital to the study and understanding of the third research topic we discuss,
strong shockwaves in dense fluids. Such shockwaves exhibit stationary
far-from-equilibrium states obtained with purely reversible Hamiltonian
mechanics. The SPAM interpolation method, applied to this molecular dynamics
problem, clearly demonstrates both the tensor character of kinetic temperature
and the time-delayed response of stress and heat flux to the strain rate and
temperature gradients. The dynamic Lyapunov instability of the shockwave
problem can be analyzed in a variety of ways, both with and without symmetry in
time. These three subjects suggest many topics suitable for graduate research
in nonlinear nonequilibrium problems.Comment: 40 pages, with 21 figures, as presented at the Granada Seminar on the
Foundations of Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics, 13-17 September, as three
lecture
Smooth-Particle Phase Stability with density and density-gradient potentials
Stable fluid and solid particle phases are essential to the simulation of
continuum fluids and solids using Smooth Particle Applied Mechanics. We show
that density-dependent potentials, such as Phi=(1/2)Sum (rho-rho_0)^2, along
with their corresponding constitutive relations, provide a simple means for
characterizing fluids and that a special stabilization potential, Phi=(1/2)Sum
(delrho)^2, not only stabilizes crystalline solid phases (or meshes) but also
provides a surface tension which is missing in the usual
density-dependent-potential approach. We illustrate these ideas for
two-dimensional square, triangular, and hexagonal lattices.Comment: 10 pages, 5 figure
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