Symmetry reduction for molecular dynamics simulation of an imploding gas bubble

  • Authors:

  • Alexander Bass;Seth Putterman;Barry Merriman;Steven J. Ruuth

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States;Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States;Department of Mathematics, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States;Department of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada V5A 1S6

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computational Physics
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We propose a symmetry reduction technique whereby molecular dynamics (MD) simulations for spherically symmetric gas bubbles can be accelerated. Results for an imploding Xenon bubble containing 50 million particles-the smallest measured sonoluminescing system-are presented.