Molecular dynamics simulations of ballistic He penetration into W fuzz

Rifle bullet penetration into ballistic gelatin.

The penetration of a rifle bullet into a block of ballistic gelatin is experimentally and computationally studied for enhancing our understanding of the damage caused to human soft tissues. The gelatin is modeled as an isotropic and homogeneous elastic-plastic linearly strain-hardening material that obeys a polynomial equation of state. Effects of numerical uncertainties on penetration characte...

Ballistic and molecular dynamics simulations of aluminum deposition in micro-trenches

Two different feature scale modeling frameworks are utilized for the study of aluminum (Al) deposition profiles inside micro-trenches. The first framework, which is applied in metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) of Al, couples a ballistic model for the local flux calculation, a surface chemistry model, and a profile evolution algorithm. The calculated conformity of the deposited fil...

Insights into channel dysfunction from modelling and molecular dynamics simulations

Developments in structural biology mean that the number of different ion channel structures has increased significantly in recent years. Structures of ion channels enable us to rationalize how mutations may lead to channelopathies. However, determining the structures of ion channels is still not trivial, especially as they necessarily exist in many distinct functional states. Therefore, the use...

W Aves of Change – T He Dynamics of Institutional Pressure

Molecular dynamics simulations.

Molecular dynamics simulations have become a standard tool for the investigation of biomolecules. Simulations are performed of ever bigger systems using more realistic boundary conditions and better sampling due to longer sampling times. Recently, realistic simulations of systems as complex as transmembrane channels have become feasible. Simulations aid our understanding of biochemical processe...