Useful scars: Physics of the capsids of archaeal viruses

LE Perotti, S Dharmavaram, WS Klug, J Marian… - Physical Review E, 2016 - APS
We propose a physical model for the capsids of tailed archaeal viruses as viscoelastic
membranes under tension. The fluidity is generated by thermal motion of scarlike structures …

Accelerated molecular dynamics methods in a massively parallel world

RJ Zamora, D Perez, E Martinez, BP Uberuaga… - Handbook of Materials …, 2020 - Springer
As high-performance computing systems now rely on hardware parallelism for continuous
improvements in performance, the timescales accessible to direct molecular dynamics (MD) …

Hybrid-optimization strategy for the communication of large-scale Kinetic Monte Carlo simulation

B Wu, S Li, Y Zhang, N Nie - Computer Physics Communications, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The parallel Kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) algorithm based on domain decomposition
has been widely used in large-scale physical simulations. However, the communication …

Atomistic modeling of radiation-induced disordering and dissolution at a Ni/Ni3Al interface

T Lee, A Caro, MJ Demkowicz - Journal of Materials Research, 2015 - cambridge.org
L12-ordered γ′ precipitates embedded in a fcc γ matrix impart excellent mechanical
properties to nickel-base superalloys. However, these enhanced mechanical properties are …

Further development of large-scale atomistic modelling techniques for Fe–Cr alloys

D Terentyev, G Bonny, N Castin, C Domain… - Journal of nuclear …, 2011 - Elsevier
In this paper we review the current status of our efforts to model the Fe–Cr system, which is a
model alloy for high-Cr ferritic–martensitic steels, using large-scale atomistic methods. The …

Synchronous parallel Kinetic Monte Carlo: Implementation and results for object and lattice approaches

I Martin-Bragado, J Abujas, PL Galindo… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2015 - Elsevier
An adaptation of the synchronous parallel Kinetic Monte Carlo (spKMC) algorithm
developed by Martinez et al.(2008) to the existing KMC code MMonCa (Martin-Bragado et …

DFT-parameterized object kinetic Monte Carlo simulations of radiation damage

E Martínez, MJ Caturla, J Marian - Handbook of materials modeling …, 2020 - Springer
Materials for nuclear applications are subjected to extremely stringent conditions. The
incoming energetic particles create different types of defects in the material that modify the …

Crystal-KMC: Parallel software for lattice dynamics Monte Carlo simulation of metal materials

J Li, P Wei, S Yang, J Wu, P Liu… - Tsinghua Science and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) is a widely used method for studying the evolution of materials at
the microcosmic level. At present, while there are many simulation software programs based …

Parallel optimization of the crystal-KMC on Tianhe-2

J Li, B Ji, Y Yang, P Wei, J Wu - Tsinghua Science and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) is one of the commonly used methods for simulating
radiation damage of materials. Our team develops a parallel KMC software named Crystal …

Parallelization of tau-leap coarse-grained Monte Carlo simulations on GPUs

L Xu, M Taufer, S Collins… - 2010 IEEE international …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Coarse-Grained Monte Carlo (CGMC) method is a multi-scale stochastic mathematical
and simulation framework for spatially distributed systems. CGMC simulations are important …