Langevin dynamics for rigid bodies of arbitrary shape
Xiuquan Sun, Teng Lin, and J. Daniel Gezelter *
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, Indiana 46556
We present an algorithm for carrying out Langevin dynamics
simulations on complex rigid bodies by incorporating the hydrodynamic
resistance tensors for arbitrary shapes into an advanced rotational
integration scheme. The integrator gives quantitative agreement with
both analytic and approximate hydrodynamic theories for a number of
model rigid bodies and works well at reproducing the solute dynamical
properties (diffusion constants and orientational relaxation times)
obtained from explicitly solvated simulations.