Bulletin of the American Physical Society
19th Biennial Conference of the APS Topical Group on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter
Volume 60, Number 8
Sunday–Friday, June 14–19, 2015; Tampa, Florida
Session O5: First-Principles and MD IV: Accelerated Molecular Dynamics |
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Chair: Tim Germann, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Matthew Lane, Sandia National Laboratories Room: Grand I/J |
Wednesday, June 17, 2015 9:15AM - 9:30AM |
O5.00001: Toward a reaction rate model of condensed-phase RDX decomposition under high temperatures Igor Schweigert Shock ignition of energetic molecular solids is driven by microstructural heterogeneities, at which even moderate stresses can result in sufficiently high temperatures to initiate material decomposition and chemical energy release. Mesoscale modeling of these ``hot spots'' requires a reaction rate model that describes the energy release with a sub-microsecond resolution and under a wide range of temperatures. No such model is available even for well-studied energetic materials such as RDX. In this presentation, I will describe an ongoing effort to develop a reaction rate model of condensed-phase RDX decomposition under high temperatures using first-principles molecular dynamics, transition-state theory, and reaction network analysis. [Preview Abstract] |
Wednesday, June 17, 2015 9:30AM - 9:45AM |
O5.00002: Nonholonomic Hamiltonian Method for Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Reacting Shocks Eric Fahrenthold, Joseph Bass Conventional molecular dynamics simulations of reacting shocks employ a holonomic Hamiltonian formulation: the breaking and forming of covalent bonds is described by potential functions. In general these potential functions: (a) are algebraically complex, (b) must satisfy strict smoothness requirements, and (c) contain many fitted parameters. In recent research the authors have developed a new noholonomic formulation of reacting molecular dynamics. In this formulation bond orders are determined by rate equations and the bonding-debonding process need not be described by differentiable functions. This simplifies the representation of complex chemistry and reduces the number of fitted model parameters. Example applications of the method show molecular level shock to detonation simulations in nitromethane and RDX. [Preview Abstract] |
Wednesday, June 17, 2015 9:45AM - 10:00AM |
O5.00003: QMD and classical MD simulation of alpha boron and boron-carbide behavior under pressure Alexey Yanilkin, Pavel Korotaev, Alexey Kuksin, Pavel Pokatashkin Boron and some boron-rich compounds are super-hard and light-weighted material with a wide range of different applications. Nevertheless, the question of its behavior under pressure is still open. In the present work we study the equation of state (EOS), stability and deformation of $\alpha $-B and B4C under high pressure within quantum and classical molecular dynamics (QMD and MD). Based on QMD results the finite temperature EOSs are revealed. CBC chain bending, amorphization and recrystallization of B4C are investigated under hydrostatic, uniform and uniaxial compression. The influence of nonhydrostatic loading is discussed. Angular dependent interatomic potentials are derived by force-matching method. The properties of $\alpha $-B and B4C, obtained by classical potential, are verified. Structure, bulk modulus, pressure-volume relation, Gruneisen and thermal expansion coefficients are in good agreement with both ab initio and experimental data. These potentials are used to study shock wave propagation in a single crystal of $\alpha $-B and B4C. Two mechanisms of shear deformation are observed: stacking fault formation and local amorphization. The crystallographic orientations of defects are in a good agreement with experiments. [Preview Abstract] |
Wednesday, June 17, 2015 10:00AM - 10:15AM |
O5.00004: A New Force-Matched Reactive Force Field for Bulk Water Under Extreme Thermodynamic Conditions Laurence Fried, Lucas Koziol A many-body classical force field is presented for water under dissociative thermodynamic conditions. The force field is optimized by force-matching to ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) simulations calculated with Density Functional Theory (DFT). The force field contains short-ranged central and many-body over-coordination terms, and long-range Ewald electrostatics. It is optimized and tested on water at density 1.5 g/mL and 2000 K, which is approximately 10\% dissociated according to DFT. Molecular dynamics simulations closely reproduce DFT radial distribution functions, as well as the distribution of wat and dissociation products. The calculated atomic self-diffusion constants appear about 50\% lower than in DFT, although precise comparison is impossible due to the short timescale accessible to AIMD (about 20 ps). The force field is also compared to ReaxFF using the CHO parameter set of Chenowith et al. ReaxFF structural and dynamical properties are in overall fair agreement with DFT, although ReaxFF water is not dissociative at these conditions. [Preview Abstract] |
Wednesday, June 17, 2015 10:15AM - 10:45AM |
O5.00005: Accelerated electronic structure-based molecular dynamics simulations of shock-induced chemistry Invited Speaker: Marc Cawkwell The initiation and progression of shock-induced chemistry in organic materials at moderate temperatures and pressures are slow on the time scales available to regular molecular dynamics simulations. Accessing the requisite time scales is particularly challenging if the interatomic bonding is modeled using accurate yet expensive methods based explicitly on electronic structure. We have combined fast, energy conserving extended Lagrangian Born-Oppenheimer molecular dynamics with the parallel replica accelerated molecular dynamics formalism to study the relatively sluggish shock-induced chemistry of benzene around 13-20 GPa. We model interatomic bonding in hydrocarbons using self-consistent tight binding theory with an accurate and transferable parameterization. Shock compression and its associated transient, non-equilibrium effects are captured explicitly by combining the universal liquid Hugoniot with a simple shrinking-cell boundary condition. A number of novel methods for improving the performance of reactive electronic structure-based molecular dynamics by adapting the self-consistent field procedure on-the-fly will also be discussed. The use of accelerated molecular dynamics has enabled us to follow the initial stages of the nucleation and growth of carbon clusters in benzene under thermodynamic conditions pertinent to experiments. [Preview Abstract] |
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