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  2. Particle in a box - Wikipedia

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    The potential energy in this model is given as = {, < < +,,, where L is the length of the box, x c is the location of the center of the box and x is the position of the particle within the box. Simple cases include the centered box ( x c = 0) and the shifted box ( x c = L /2) (pictured).

  3. Periodic boundary conditions - Wikipedia

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    PBCs can be used in conjunction with Ewald summation methods (e.g., the particle mesh Ewald method) to calculate electrostatic forces in the system. However, PBCs also introduce correlational artifacts that do not respect the translational invariance of the system, [ 3 ] and requires constraints on the composition and size of the simulation box.

  4. Meshfree methods - Wikipedia

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    One disadvantage of SPH is that it requires extra programming to determine the nearest neighbors of a particle. Since the kernel function W {\displaystyle W} only returns nonzero results for nearby particles within twice the "smoothing length" (because we typically choose kernel functions with compact support ), it would be a waste of effort to ...

  5. Packing problems - Wikipedia

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    The related circle packing problem deals with packing circles, possibly of different sizes, on a surface, for instance the plane or a sphere. The counterparts of a circle in other dimensions can never be packed with complete efficiency in dimensions larger than one (in a one-dimensional universe, the circle analogue is just two points). That is ...

  6. Snake-in-the-box - Wikipedia

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    There is a similar problem of finding long induced cycles in hypercubes, called the coil-in-the-box problem. The snake-in-the-box problem was first described by Kautz (1958), motivated by the theory of error-correcting codes. The vertices of a solution to the snake or coil in the box problems can be used as a Gray code that can detect single ...

  7. List of algorithms - Wikipedia

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    An algorithm is fundamentally a set of rules or defined procedures that is typically designed and used to solve a specific problem or a broad set of problems.. Broadly, algorithms define process(es), sets of rules, or methodologies that are to be followed in calculations, data processing, data mining, pattern recognition, automated reasoning or other problem-solving operations.

  8. Balls into bins problem - Wikipedia

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    The balls into bins (or balanced allocations) problem is a classic problem in probability theory that has many applications in computer science. The problem involves m balls and n boxes (or "bins"). Each time, a single ball is placed into one of the bins.

  9. Particle method - Wikipedia

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    A particle method instance describes a specific problem or setting, which can be solved or simulated using the particle method algorithm. Third, the definition of the particle state transition function. The state transition function describes how a particle method proceeds from the instance to the final state using the data structures and ...