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Cool gas and star formation properties of ram pressure stripped galaxy NGC 4522: Insights from the TIGRESS simulation

  • Choi, Woorak;Lee, Bumhyun;Chung, Aeree;Kim, Chang-Goo
    • 천문학회보
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    • 제44권1호
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    • pp.77.2-77.2
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    • 2019
  • NGC 4522 is one of the best-known examples among the Virgo galaxies undergoing active ram pressure stripping. There have been a number of detailed observational and theoretical studies on this galaxy to constrain its stripping and star formation history. However, the impact of ram pressure on the multi-phased ISM, in particular molecular gas which plays an important role in star formation, is still not fully understood. NGC 4522, as a system where the extra-planar molecular gas is identified, is an ideal case to probe in depth how ram pressure affects molecular gas properties. Aiming to get more theoretical insights on the detailed stripping process of multi-phased ISM and its consequences, we have conducted simulations using the TIGRESS which could reproduce the realistic ISM under comparable conditions as NGC 4522. In this work, we compare the fraction of gas mass to stellar mass, star formation rates and gas depletion time scales of NGC 4522 with those measured from the simulations, not only inside the disk but also in the extra-planar space.

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Influences of Aldehyde Type and p-Substituent Type on Structural Characteristics of p-Alkylphenol Aldehyde Resins Using a Molecular Simulation

  • 최성신
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • 제20권2호
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    • pp.203-210
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    • 1999
  • Structural characteristics of isotactic p-alkylphenol acetaldehyde novolak resins with methyl, t-butyl, and t-octyl as the p-substituent and p-t-butylphenol aldehyde novolak resins with methylene, ethylidene, and propylidene as the linkage were calculated using molecular mechanics and molecular dynamics. The five p-alkylphenol aldehyde resins were found to have common structural characteristics that hydroxyl groups of the p-alkylphenols cluster in the center of the molecule by intramolecular hydrogen bonds of hydroxyl groups of the adjacent p-alkylphenols and the alkyl groups are extended out. Distances between oxygen atoms and between p-carbon atoms of the adjacent p-alkylphenols become longer as the size of the p-substituent increases from methyl to toctyl. Bond angles of the linkage built between the adjacent p-alkylphenols become wider by increasing the p-substituent size and by decreasing the linkage size.

Structural properties of β-Fe2O3 nanorods under compression and torsion: Molecular dynamics simulations

  • Kilic, Mehmet Emin;Alaei, Sholeh
    • Current Applied Physics
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    • 제18권11호
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    • pp.1352-1358
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    • 2018
  • In recent years, one-dimensional (1D) magnetic nanostructures, such as magnetic nanorods and chains of magnetic nanoparticles have received great attentions due to the breadth of applications. Especially, magnetic nanorods has been opened an area of active research and applications in medicine, sensors, optofluidics, magnetic swimming, and microrheology since they possess the unique magnetic and geometric features. This study focuses on the molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of an infinitely long crystal ${\beta}-Fe_2O_3$ nanorod. To elucidate the structural properties and dynamics behavior of ${\beta}-Fe_2O_3$ nanorods, MD simulation is a powerful technique. The structural properties such as equation of state and radial distribution function of bulk ${\beta}-Fe_2O_3$ are performed by lattice dynamics (LD) simulations. In this work, we consider three main mechanisms affecting on deformation characteristics of a ${\beta}-Fe_2O_3$ nanorod: 1) temperature, 2) the rate of mechanical compression, and 3) the rate of mechanical torsion.

First-principles study of dissociation processes of O2 molecular on the Al (111) surface

  • Sun, Shiyang;Xu, Pingping;Ren, Yuan;Tan, Xin;Li, Geyang
    • Current Applied Physics
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    • 제18권12호
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    • pp.1528-1533
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    • 2018
  • The trajectories of adsorption and dissociation process of $O_2$ on the Al (111) surface were studied by the spinpolarized ab initio molecular dynamics method, and the adsorption activation energy was clarified by the NEB method with hybrid functionals. Three typical dissociation trajectories were found through simulation of $O_2$ molecule at different initial positions. When vertically approaches to the Al surface, the $O_2$ molecule tends to rotate, and the activation energy is 0.66eV. If $O_2$ molecule does not rotate, the activation energy will increase to 1.43 eV, and it makes the O atom enter the Al sublayer eventually. When the $O_2$ molecules parallel approach to the Al surface, there is no activation energy, due to the huge energy released during the adsorption process.

Nystatin Drug as an Effective Corrosion Inhibitor for Mild Steel in Acidic Media- An Experimental and Theoretical Study

  • Mehmeti, Valbone
    • Corrosion Science and Technology
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    • 제21권1호
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    • pp.21-31
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    • 2022
  • Potentiodynamic polarization, EIS measurements, quantum chemical calculations, and molecular dynamic simulations were used to investigate the corrosion behavior of mild steel in 0.5 M aqueous hydrochloric acid medium in the presence or absence of nystatin drug. Potentiodynamic tests suggested that this molecule could act as a mixed inhibitor due to its adsorption on the mild steel surface. The objective of this study was to exploit theoretical calculations to gain a better understanding mechanism of inhibition. Calculating the adsorption behavior of the investigated molecule on Fe (1 1 0) surface was accomplished using Monte Carlo simulation. Molecules were also investigated using Density Functional Theory (DFT), specifically PBE functional, in order to identify the link between molecular structure and corrosion inhibition behavior of the compound under investigation. Adsorption energies between nystatin and iron were estimated more accurately by utilizing Molecular Mechanics calculation with Periodic Boundary Conditions (PBC). Estimated theoretical parameters significantly assisted our understanding of the corrosion inhibition mechanism exhibited by this molecule. They were found to be in accord with experimental results.

INVESTIGATION OF ENERGETIC DEPOSITION OF Au/Au (001) THIN FILMS BY COMPUTER SIMULATION

  • Zhang, Q. Y.;Pan, Z. Y.;Zhao, G. O.
    • 한국진공학회지
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    • 제7권s1호
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    • pp.183-189
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    • 1998
  • A new computer simulation method for film growth, the kinetic Monte Carlo simulation in combination with the results obtained from molecular dynamics simulation for the transient process induced by deposited atoms, was developed. The behavior of energetic atom in Au/Au(100) thin film deposition was investigated by the method. The atomistic mechanism of energetic atom deposition that led to the smoothness enhancement and the relationship between the role of transient process and film growth mechanism were discussed. We found that energetic atoms cannot affect the film growth mode in layer-by-layer at high temperature. However, at temperature of film growth in 3-dimensional mode and in quasi-two-dimensional mode, energetic atoms can enhance the smoothness of film surface. The enhancement of smoothness is caused by the transient mobility of energetic atoms and the suppression for the formation of 3-dimensional islands.

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Computational Study of Human Calcitonin (hCT) Oligomer

  • Pak, Young-Shang;Shin, Jung-Ho;Jang, Soon-Min
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • 제30권12호
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    • pp.3006-3010
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    • 2009
  • We have performed long time REMD simulation on 15-19 residues of human calcitonin hormone (DFNKF) which is known to form highly ordered amyloid fibril. The simulation started from randomly oriented multiple DFNKF strand. Using all-atom level simulations with the generalized Born solvation (GB) model (param99MOD3), we observed spontaneous formation of ${\beta}$-sheet for tetramer. Interestingly, the current simulation gives anti-parallel sheet as a major conformation, consistent with experiments. The major interaction stabilizing the anti-parallel sheet seems to be the inter-strand hydrogen bond.

A Dynamic Accuracy Estimation for GPU-based Monte Carlo Simulation in Tissue Optics

  • Cai, Fuhong;Lu, Wen
    • Current Optics and Photonics
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    • 제1권5호
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    • pp.551-555
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    • 2017
  • Tissue optics is a well-established and extensively studied area. In the last decades, Monte Carlo simulation (MCS) has been one of the standard tools for simulation of light propagation in turbid media. The utilization of parallel processing exhibits dramatic increase in the speed of MCS's of photon migration. Some calculations based on MCS can be completed within a few seconds. Since the MCS's have the potential to become a real time calculation method, a dynamic accuracy estimation, which is also known as history by history statistical estimators, is required in the simulation code to automatically terminate the MCS as the results' accuracy achieves a high enough level. In this work, spatial and time-domain GPU-based MCS, adopting the dynamic accuracy estimation, are performed to calculate the light dose/reflectance in homogeneous and heterogeneous tissue media. This dynamic accuracy estimation can effectively derive the statistical error of optical dose/reflectance during the parallel Monte Carlo process.

Atomic Study of Oxidation of Si(001) surface by MD Simulation

  • Pamungkas, Mauludi Ariesto;Kim, Byung-Hyun;Joe, Min-Woong;Lee, Kwang-Ryeol
    • 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국진공학회 2009년도 제38회 동계학술대회 초록집
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    • pp.360-360
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    • 2010
  • Very initial stage of oxidation process of Si (001) surface was investigated using large scale molecular dynamics simulation. Reactive force field potential was used for the simulation owing to its ability to handle charge variation associated with the oxidation reaction. To know the detail mechanism of both adsorption and desorption of water molecule (for simulating wet oxidation), oxygen molecule (for dry oxidation) and their atom constituents, interaction of one molecule with Si surface was carefully observed. The simulation is then continued with many water and oxygen molecules to understand the kinetics of oxide growth. The results show that possibilities of desorption and adsorption depend strongly on initial atomic configuration as well as temperature. We observed a tendency that H atoms come relatively into deeper surface or otherwise quickly desorbed away from the silicon surface. On the other hand, most oxygen atoms are bonded with first layer of silicon surface. We also noticed that charge transfer is only occur in nearest neighbor regime which has been pointed out by DFT calculation. Atomic structure of the interface between the oxide and Si substrate was characterized in atomic scale.

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무정형 열가소성 고분자의 자유 라디칼 중합 분자동역학 시뮬레이션 알고리즘 (Free Radical Polymerization Algorithm for a Thermoplastic Polymer Matrix : A Molecular Dynamics Study)

  • 정지원;박찬욱;윤군진
    • Composites Research
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    • 제32권3호
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    • pp.163-169
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    • 2019
  • 본 연구에서 우리는 자유 라디칼 중합에 기반한 열가소성 고분자의 동적 분자동역학 중합 알고리즘을 이용하여 95%의 변환률을 갖는 PMMA의 고분자 모델을 구성하였다. 본 알고리즘에서는 계산 수행에 필요한 시간을 줄이기 위해 PCFF 포텐셜 함수의 결합 항들 TraPPE-UA 포텐셜 함수의 비결합 항을 조합한 united-atom level의 coarse-grained 포텐셜 함수를 도입하였다. 자유 라디칼 중합 시뮬레이션을 통해 생성된 각 사슬을 분석하여 고분자의 분자량 분포와 평균 분자량을 계산하였고, 고분자의 분자량은 초기 상태에 존재하는 개시제 라디칼의 수를 이용하여 조절하였으며, 유리전이온도, 기계적 물성에 미치는 분자량의 효과에 대해 연구되었다.