A two-dimensional hybrid simulation of ionic fluids

✍ Scribed by S.S. Mak; W.K. Chung

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 616 KB
• Volume: 78
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0010-4655
• DOI: 10.1016/0010-4655(93)90148-6

✦ Synopsis

The Monte Carlo method is conventionally used to study properties of ionic fluids, and is known to be rather inefficient. In this paper, a hybrid simulation scheme, which is an amalgamation of the particle-mesh scheme and the Monte Carlo method, is used to study two-dimensional ionic fluids. The results are compared with those obtained using the Perram scheme, which is known to be one of the most efficient 2-D schemes but which cannot be applied to 3-D problems. The computational costs for both methods are about the same. It is anticipated that the proposed hybrid scheme, which may be easily extended to study 3-D problems, will bring about substantial savings over other conventional 3-D schemes, such as those using Ewald summation.