Advances in the Computer Simulatons of Liquid Crystals

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction to Simulations and Statistical Mechanics....Pages 1-16
Liquid Crystal Observables: Static and Dynamic Properties....Pages 17-50
Phase Behavior of Lyotropic Liquid Crystals....Pages 51-72
Modelling Liquid Crystal Structure, Phase Behaviour and Large-Scale Phenomena....Pages 73-97
Liquid Crystal Lattice Models I. Bulk Systems....Pages 99-119
Liquid Crystal Lattice Models II. Confined Systems....Pages 121-138
Computer Simulation of Lyotropic Liquid Crysta as Models of Biological Membranes....Pages 139-187
Flow Properties and Structure of Anisotropic Fluids Studied by Non-Equilibrium Molecular Dynamics, and Flow Properties of other Complex Fluids: Polymeric Liquids, Ferro-Fluids and Magneto-Rheological Fluids....Pages 189-233
Self Atom-Atom Empirical Potentials for the Static and Dynamic Simulation of Condensed Phases....Pages 235-250
Atomistic Modelling of Liquid Crystal Phases....Pages 251-262
Atomistic Simulation and Modeling of Smectic Liquid Crystals....Pages 263-331
Multiple Time Steps Algorithms for the Atomistic Simulations of Complex Molecular Systems....Pages 333-387
Parallel Molecular Dynamics Techniques for the Simulation of Anisotropic Systems....Pages 389-415
Back Matter....Pages 417-427