--- trunk/tengDissertation/Langevin.tex 2006/06/11 02:06:01 2851 +++ trunk/tengDissertation/Langevin.tex 2006/06/11 02:23:00 2853 @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ -\chapter{\label{chapt:methodology}Langevin Dynamics for Rigid Bodies of Arbitrary Shape} +\chapter{\label{chapt:methodology}LANGEVIN DYNAMICS for RIGID BODIES of ARBITRARY SHAPE} \section{Introduction} @@ -47,59 +47,6 @@ efficiently\cite{Sandu1999}. has been shown to be able to damp out the resonance artifact more efficiently\cite{Sandu1999}. -%review rigid body dynamics -Rigid bodies are frequently involved in the modeling of different -areas, from engineering, physics, to chemistry. For example, -missiles and vehicle are usually modeled by rigid bodies. The -movement of the objects in 3D gaming engine or other physics -simulator is governed by the rigid body dynamics. In molecular -simulation, rigid body is used to simplify the model in -protein-protein docking study{\cite{Gray2003}}. - -It is very important to develop stable and efficient methods to -integrate the equations of motion of orientational degrees of -freedom. Euler angles are the nature choice to describe the -rotational degrees of freedom. However, due to its singularity, the -numerical integration of corresponding equations of motion is very -inefficient and inaccurate. Although an alternative integrator using -different sets of Euler angles can overcome this difficulty\cite{}, -the computational penalty and the lost of angular momentum -conservation still remain. In 1977, a singularity free -representation utilizing quaternions was developed by -Evans\cite{Evans1977}. Unfortunately, this approach suffer from the -nonseparable Hamiltonian resulted from quaternion representation, -which prevents the symplectic algorithm to be utilized. Another -different approach is to apply holonomic constraints to the atoms -belonging to the rigid body\cite{}. Each atom moves independently -under the normal forces deriving from potential energy and -constraint forces which are used to guarantee the rigidness. -However, due to their iterative nature, SHAKE and Rattle algorithm -converge very slowly when the number of constraint increases. - -The break through in geometric literature suggests that, in order to -develop a long-term integration scheme, one should preserve the -geometric structure of the flow. Matubayasi and Nakahara developed a -time-reversible integrator for rigid bodies in quaternion -representation. Although it is not symplectic, this integrator still -demonstrates a better long-time energy conservation than traditional -methods because of the time-reversible nature. Extending -Trotter-Suzuki to general system with a flat phase space, Miller and -his colleagues devised an novel symplectic, time-reversible and -volume-preserving integrator in quaternion representation. However, -all of the integrators in quaternion representation suffer from the -computational penalty of constructing a rotation matrix from -quaternions to evolve coordinates and velocities at every time step. -An alternative integration scheme utilizing rotation matrix directly -is RSHAKE , in which a conjugate momentum to rotation matrix is -introduced to re-formulate the Hamiltonian's equation and the -Hamiltonian is evolved in a constraint manifold by iteratively -satisfying the orthogonality constraint. However, RSHAKE is -inefficient because of the iterative procedure. An extremely -efficient integration scheme in rotation matrix representation, -which also preserves the same structural properties of the -Hamiltonian flow as Miller's integrator, is proposed by Dullweber, -Leimkuhler and McLachlan (DLM). - %review langevin/browninan dynamics for arbitrarily shaped rigid body Combining Langevin or Brownian dynamics with rigid body dynamics, one can study the slow processes in biomolecular systems. Modeling @@ -153,7 +100,7 @@ sophisticated rigid body dynamics. \section{Method{\label{methodSec}}} -\subsection{\label{introSection:frictionTensor} Friction Tensor} +\subsection{\label{introSection:frictionTensor}Friction Tensor} Theoretically, the friction kernel can be determined using velocity autocorrelation function. However, this approach become impractical when the system become more and more complicate. Instead, various