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. 2017 Jan 9;9(1):16. doi: 10.3390/polym9010016
Acronyms
Acronym Full phrase
AA All-Atomistic
AC Amorphous Cell method
AdResS Adaptive Resolution Scheme
AIMD Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics
AtC Atomistic/Continuum method
BD Brownian Dynamics
BDM Bridging Domain Method
BGK-LB Bhatnagar, Gross, And Krook LB method
BSM Bridging Scale Method
CACM Composite Grid Atomistic/Continuum Method
CADD Coupled Atomistic and Discrete Dislocation method
CFD Computational Fluid Dynamics
CG Coarse-Grained
CGMD Coarse-Grained Molecular Dynamics
CLS Coupling of Length Scales method
CRW Conditional Reversible Work
D2Q9 2-dimensional lattice with 9 allowed velocities used in LB simulations
D3Q19 3-dimensional lattice with 19 allowed velocities used in LB simulations
DDFT Dynamic Density Functional Theory
DFT Density Functional Theory
DPD Dissipative Particle Dynamics
EFCG Effective Force CG
EM Energy Minimization
FDM Finite Difference Method
FE Finite Element
FEAt Finite-Element/Atomistic method
FEM Finite Element Method
FVM Finite Volume Method
GDM Generalized Differences Methods
GFEM Galerkin Finite Element Method
GPU Graphics Processing Unit
H-AdResS Hamiltonian Adaptive Resolution Scheme
HSM Hybrid Simulation Method
IBI Iterative Boltzmann Inversion
IMC Inverse Monte Carlo
LB Lattice Boltzmann
LGCA Lattice Gas Cellular Automata
LSM Lattice Spring Model
MC Monte Carlo
MD Molecular Dynamics
Na-MMT Sodium Montmorillonite
NEMS Nano-Electro-Mechanical Systems
OpenFOAM Open Source Field Operation And Manipulation
PA Polyamide
PAC Pseudo Amorphous Cell method
Pe Peclet number
PE Polyethylene
PNC Polymer Nanocomposite
PP Polypropylene
pPMF Pair Potential of Mean Force
PRISM Polymer Reference Interaction Site
PS Polystyrene
PTT Poly(Trimethylene Terephthalate)
QC Quasicontinuum method
QM Quantum Mechanics
QUICK Quadratic Upstream Interpolation for Convective Kinematics
Re Reynolds number
RVE Representative Volume Element
SCFT Self-Consistent Field Theory
SDPD Smoothed Dissipative Particle Dynamics
SEM Spectral Element Method
SPH Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics
SRF Strain Reduction Factor model
SUPG Streamline-Upwind/Petrov-Galerkin
TB Tight Binding
TDGL Time-Dependent Ginzburg-Landau
VMS Variational Multiscale methods
We Weissenberg number
XRD X-Ray Diffraction