Advances in the Computer Simulatons of Liquid Crystals

Preface. 1. Introduction to simulations and statistical mechanics; M.P. Allen. 2. Liquid crystal observables: static and dynamic properties; C. Zannoni. 3. Phase behavior of lyotropic liquid crystals; D. Frenkel. 4. Modelling liquid crystal structure, phase behaviour and large-scale phenomena; M.P. Allen. 5. Liquid crystal lattice models I. Bulk systems; P. Pasini, et al. 6. Liquid crystal lattice models II. Confined systems; P. Pasini, et al. 7. Computer simulation of lyotropic liquid crystals as models of biological membranes; O.G. Mouritsen. 8. 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; S. Hess. 9. Self atom-atom empirical potentials for the static and dynamic simulation of condensed phases; A. Gavezzotti, G. Filippini. 10. Atomistic modelling of liquid crystal phases; M.R. Wilson, et al. 11. Atomistic simulation and modeling of smectic liquid crystals; M.A. Glaser. 12. Multiple time steps algorithms for the atomistic simulations of complex molecular systems; P. Procacci, M. Marchi. 13. Parallel molecular dynamics techniques for the simulation of anisotropic systems; M.R. Wilson. Index.