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Intensive studies in the area of dendritic macromolecules, which include applied research and are generally interdisciplinary, have created a need for a more systematic approach to dendritic architectures development that employs a multi-scale modeling and simulation approach. A possible way is to determine the atomic-scale characteristics of dendritic molecules using computer simulation and computational approaches. Computer simulation, as a powerful and modem tool for solving scientific problems, can be performed for dendritic architectures without synthesizing them. Computer simulation not only used to reproduce experiment to elucidate the invisible microscopic details and further explain experiments, but also can be used as a useful predictive tool. Currently, Monte Carlo, Brownian dynamics and molecular dynamics are the most widely used simulation methods for molecular systems [5]. 

But a computer simulation is more than a few clever data structures. We need algorithms to manipulate our system. In some way, we have to invent ways to let the big computer in our hands do things with the model that is useful for our needs. There are a number of ways for such a time evolution of the system the most prominent is the Monte Carlo procedure that follows an appropriate random path through configuration space in order to investigate equilibrium properties. Then there is molecular dynamics, which follows classical mechanical trajectories. There is a variety of dissipative dynamical methods, such as Brownian dynamics. All these techniques operate on the fundamental degrees of freedom of what we define to be our model. This is the common feature of computer simulations as opposed to other numerical approaches. 

Sometimes the theoretical or computational approach to description of molecular structure, properties, and reactivity cannot be based on deterministic equations that can be solved by analytical or computational methods. The properties of a molecule or assembly of molecules may be known or describable only in a statistical sense. Molecules and assemblies of molecules exist in distributions of configuration, composition, momentum, and energy. Sometimes, this statistical character is best captured and studied by computer experiments molecular dynamics, Brownian dynamics, Stokesian dynamics, and Monte Carlo methods. Interaction potentials based on quantum mechanics, classical particle mechanics, continuum mechanics, or empiricism are specified and the evolution of the system is then followed in time by simulation of motions resulting from these direct... 

Simulation techniques suitable for the description of phenomena at each length-scale are now relatively well established Monte Carlo (MC) and Molecular Dynamics (MD) methods at the molecular length-scale, various mesoscopic simulation methods such as Dissipative Particle Dynamics (Groot and Warren, 1997), Brownian Dynamics, or Lattice Boltzmann in the colloidal domain, Computational Fluid Dynamics at the continuum length-scale, and sequential-modular or equation-based methods at the unit operation/process-systems level. 

Computational methods are increasingly valuable supplements to experiments and theories in the quest to understand complex liquids. Simulations and computations can be aimed at either molecular or microstructural length scales. The most widely used molecular-scale simulation methods are molecular dynamics. Brownian dynamics, and Monte Carlo sampling. Computations can also be performed at the continuum level by numerical solutions of field equations or by Stokesian dynamics methods, described briefly below. 

For this reason, computer simulation methods (Monte Carlo and molecular and Brownian dynamic methods) have been developed not only for solving the problems of polymer statistics, but also for the investigation of the dynamic properties and the intramolecular mobility of polymers. 

According to the fluctuation-dissipation theorem [1], the electrical polarizability of polyelectrolytes is related to the fluctuations of the dipole moment generated in the counterion atmosphere around the polyions in the absence of an applied electric field [2-4], Here we calculate the fluctuations by computer simulation to determine anisotropy of the electrical polarizability Aa of model DNA fragments in salt-free aqueous solutions [5-7]. The Metropolis Monte Carlo (MC) Brownian dynamics method [8-12] is applied to calculate counterion distributions, electric potentials, and fluctuations of counterion polarization. 

A brief and clear explanation of various types of mathematical modeling, including Monte Carlo simulation, Brownian dynamics, and molecular dynamics, is given in Chapter 4, Computer Simulation, of... 

In the following, we briefly describe the techniques commonly employed in computer simulation studies of lipid assemblies (and of other biomole-cules " ), namely, Monte Carlo (MC) and dynamic simulations such as molecular dynamics (MD), Brownian dynamics and stochastic boundary mo-... 

Exploration of the conformational space of protein models could be done using different computational techniques. These include MD [21], Brownian dynamics [22,23], Monte Carlo methods [24-27], and other simulation or optimization techniques such as genetic algorithms [25,28-31]. 

We have three basic types of computer simulations which can be applied to polymer systems Monte Carlo (MC), molecular dynamics (MD) and Brownian dynamics (BD). The last of these is mostly applied to polymer solutions [2,3] and will not be discussed here further. The first two are of interest in simulations of PLCs. 

The study of static and dynamic properties of polymer liquids and glasses is one of the central topics of research in polymer science. A variety of experimental and theoretical techniqi s have been mobilized for this purpose. In recent years the techniques of computer simulations are increasingly finding application toward this goal. AU the various methods of simulating polymer molecules on computers, such as Monte Carlo, molecular mechanics. Brownian dynamics, and molecular dynamics simulation techniques have been utilized. Early works relied mostly on Monte Carlo techniques apfdied to schematic models of polymer Uquid built on a lattice. With increased capabilities of computers available in recent years, the use of more computationally intensive methods has become feasible, allowing simulations of more realistic, off-latdce models of bulk polymers by Brownian and molecular dynamics simulation techniques as well as by Monte Carlo methods. 

There are two main types of computational procedure which have been used to simulate colloidal dispersions the Monte Carlo method and the Brownian dynamics method. A Monte Carlo simulation gives equilibrium behaviour only, whereas a Brownian dynamics simulation gives both equilibrium and time-dependent behaviour. 

The fact that the NxP necklace model is isomorphic to a classical system is a great help. All the methodology and standard tricks of the trade, developed to simulate classical systems with Monte Carlo and even MD techniques, can be adapted for use within the PI context. The excellent txx)ks by Allen and Tddesley [22] and by Frenkel and Smidt [23] are compulsory reading in this respect. Two main computational frameworks are successfully applied to the study of quantum fluids PI Monte Carlo (PIMC) and PI molecxilar dynamics (PIMD). PIMC is straightforward and more general in that it can deal with dispersion and exchange quantum effects, while PIMD is more efficient (and involved) but appears to be restricted to dispersion effects. Another dynamical technique PI Brownian dynamics (PIBD) was put forward by Singer and Smith [27], but its use has not been favored by the practitioners in this field. 

There is a variety of computer simulation methodologies that have been applied to study the properties of grafted polymer layers. They include Monte-Carlo (MC) simulations, Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations, and Brownian Dynamics (BD) simulations. These methodologies have been applied on a variety of model systems, including lattice chains, off-lattice chains, and Edwards Hamiltonians. A recent excellent review of the application of simulation methods has been written by Grest and Murat. Here we just discuss the applicability of the simulations methods in general, their advantages and limitations. 

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Dynamic simulation approaches to model kinetic percolation are difficult to implement because of the inherent complexity of the problem, which requires intensive computation. As with any kinetic modd, the duration of the simulation must be commensruate with the critical timescales of the experiments. An early study to investigate the effeas of interactions on the percolation threshold was conducted by Bug et al. Here, a continuum Monte Carlo algorithm was used to modd a small system of 500 spherical particles undergoing Brownian motion. More recently, advanced simulation approaches such as Dissipative Particle Dynamics (DPD) have been applied to study kinetic percolation in composite sys-tems. " DPD is an off-lattice simulation technique similar to molecular dynamics, but applied to the supramolecular scale. Here, the larger-scale dynamics of a system are studied by monitoring the motion of particle clusters in response to pairwise, dissipative, and random forces. ... 

Another approach used to investigate dynamic behavior is to simulate Brownian motion using Monte Carlo techniques on a lattice-model polymer chain with the aid of a high speed digital computer (, lU, 15) In our lattice model the config-... 

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