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Other review articles relating to colloidal suspensions and containing discussions of numerical calculations (Monte Carlo simulations) include contributions by van Megen and Snook (1984) and Castillo et al. (1984). The scope of these articles is not, however, limited to numerical techniques they also provide general reviews of the statistical mechanics of colloidal suspensions. 

The next section gives a brief overview of the main computational techniques currently applied to catalytic problems. These techniques include ab initio electronic structure calculations, (ab initio) molecular dynamics, and Monte Carlo methods. The next three sections are devoted to particular applications of these techniques to catalytic and electrocatalytic issues. We focus on the interaction of CO and hydrogen with metal and alloy surfaces, both from quantum-chemical and statistical-mechanical points of view, as these processes play an important role in fuel-cell catalysis. We also demonstrate the role of the solvent in electrocatalytic bondbreaking reactions, using molecular dynamics simulations as well as extensive electronic structure and ab initio molecular dynamics calculations. Monte Carlo simulations illustrate the importance of lateral interactions, mixing, and surface diffusion in obtaining a correct kinetic description of catalytic processes. Finally, we summarize the main conclusions and give an outlook of the role of computational chemistry in catalysis and electrocatalysis. 

A Monte Carlo simulation is fast to perform on a computer, and the presentation of the results is attractive. However, one cannot guarantee that the outcome of a Monte Carlo simulation run twice with the same input variables will yield exactly the same output, making the result less auditable. The more simulation runs performed, the less of a problem this becomes. The simulation as described does not indicate which of the input variables the result is most sensitive to, but one of the routines in Crystal Ball and Risk does allow a sensitivity analysis to be performed as the simulation is run.This is done by calculating the correlation coefficient of each input variable with the outcome (for example between area and UR). The higher the coefficient, the stronger the dependence between the input variable and the outcome. 

From the probability distributions for each of the variables on the right hand side, the values of K, p, o can be calculated. Assuming that the variables are independent, they can now be combined using the above rules to calculate K, p, o for ultimate recovery. Assuming the distribution for UR is Log-Normal, the value of UR for any confidence level can be calculated. This whole process can be performed on paper, or quickly written on a spreadsheet. The results are often within 10% of those generated by Monte Carlo simulation. 

R N. The exponent v = 0.588 has been calculated using renonnalization group teclmiques [9, 10], enumeration teclmiques for short chain lengths and Monte Carlo simulations [13]. 

In some cases the atomic charges are chosen to reproduce thermodynamic properties calculated using a molecular dynamics or Monte Carlo simulation. A series of simulations is performed and the charge model is modified until satisfactory agreement with experiment is obtained. This approach can be quite powerful despite its apparent simplicity, but it is only really practical for small molecules or simple models. 

TIk experimentally determined dipole moment of a water molecule in the gas phase is 1.85 D. The dipole moment of an individual water molecule calculated with any of thv se simple models is significantly higher for example, the SPC dipole moment is 2.27 D and that for TIP4P is 2.18 D. These values are much closer to the effective dipole moment of liquid water, which is approximately 2.6 D. These models are thus all effective pairwise models. The simple water models are usually parametrised by calculating various pmperties using molecular dynamics or Monte Carlo simulations and then modifying the... 

The forces are calculated as part of a molecular dynamics simulation, cind so little additional effort is required to calculate the virial and thus the pressure. The forces are not routinely calculated during a Monte Carlo simulation, and so some additional effort is required to determine the pressure by this route. When calculating the pressure it is also important to check that the components of the pressure in all three directions are equal. 

US model can be combined with the Monte Carlo simulation approach to calculate a r range of properties them is available from the simple matrix multiplication method. 2 RIS Monte Carlo method the statistical weight matrices are used to generate chain irmadons with a probability distribution that is implied in their statistical weights. 

A7 Ethane/methane selectivity calculated from grand canonical Monte Carlo simulations of mixtures in slit IS at a temperature of 296 K. The selectivity is defined as the ratio of the mole fractions in the pore to the ratio of mole fractions in the bulk. H is the slit width defined in terms of the methane collision diameter (Tch,- (Figure awn from Crackncll R F, D Nicholson and N Quirke 1994. A Grand Canonical Monte Carlo Study ofLennard-s Mixtures in Slit Pores 2 Mixtures of Two-Centre Ethane with Methane. Molecular Simulation 13 161-175.)... 

Calculations of relative partition coefficients have been reported using the free energy perturbation method with the molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulation methods. For example, Essex, Reynolds and Richards calculated the difference in partition coefficients of methanol and ethanol partitioned between water and carbon tetrachloride with molecular dynamics sampling [Essex et al. 1989]. The results agreed remarkably well with experiment... 

Monte Carlo simulations require less computer time to execute each iteration than a molecular dynamics simulation on the same system. However, Monte Carlo simulations are more limited in that they cannot yield time-dependent information, such as diffusion coefficients or viscosity. As with molecular dynamics, constant NVT simulations are most common, but constant NPT simulations are possible using a coordinate scaling step. Calculations that are not constant N can be constructed by including probabilities for particle creation and annihilation. These calculations present technical difficulties due to having very low probabilities for creation and annihilation, thus requiring very large collections of molecules and long simulation times. 

Molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulations can be used, but these methods involve very complex calculations. They are generally only done when more information than just the boiling point is desired and they are not calculations for a novice. 

Mesoscale simulations model a material as a collection of units, called beads. Each bead might represent a substructure, molecule, monomer, micelle, micro-crystalline domain, solid particle, or an arbitrary region of a fluid. Multiple beads might be connected, typically by a harmonic potential, in order to model a polymer. A simulation is then conducted in which there is an interaction potential between beads and sometimes dynamical equations of motion. This is very hard to do with extremely large molecular dynamics calculations because they would have to be very accurate to correctly reflect the small free energy differences between microstates. There are algorithms for determining an appropriate bead size from molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulations. 

Molecular dynamics calculations are more time-consuming than Monte Carlo calculations. This is because energy derivatives must be computed and used to solve the equations of motion. Molecular dynamics simulations are capable of yielding all the same properties as are obtained from Monte Carlo calculations. The advantage of molecular dynamics is that it is capable of modeling time-dependent properties, which can not be computed with Monte Carlo simulations. This is how diffusion coefficients must be computed. It is also possible to use shearing boundaries in order to obtain a viscosity. Molec-... 

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