Meinel, Melissa K. (2024)
Change of Roughness and Mobility upon Coarse-Graining Molecular-Dynamics Models.
Technische Universität Darmstadt
doi: 10.26083/tuprints-00027785
Ph.D. Thesis, Primary publication, Publisher's Version
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Item Type: | Ph.D. Thesis | ||||
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Type of entry: | Primary publication | ||||
Title: | Change of Roughness and Mobility upon Coarse-Graining Molecular-Dynamics Models | ||||
Language: | English | ||||
Referees: | Müller-Plathe, Prof. Dr. Florian ; Vegt, Prof. Dr. Nico van der | ||||
Date: | 16 August 2024 | ||||
Place of Publication: | Darmstadt | ||||
Collation: | 71, lxiii Seiten | ||||
Date of oral examination: | 1 July 2024 | ||||
DOI: | 10.26083/tuprints-00027785 | ||||
Abstract: | All-atom molecular dynamics simulations provide detailed insights into molecular structures and behaviors. However, simulating large systems or long processes remains computationally intense. Coarse-grained models reduce the complexity by combining multiple atoms into single units called beads, focusing on the most crucial aspects of the system and removing unnecessary degrees of freedom. This approach enables studying bigger systems over longer times but also accelerates the dynamics when compared to their all-atom reference model. This acceleration of dynamics, e.g. measured as the ratio between the self-diffusion coefficients in both representations, can vary between one and three orders of magnitude and thus practically precludes the use of coarse-grained models for determining accurate dynamical properties. This thesis presents a novel approach designed to predict the dynamical acceleration observed in coarse-grained models relative to their atomistic counterparts by quantifying the lost geometric information upon coarse-graining. Several atoms merge into the spherical surface of one bead, thereby smoothening the surface and reducing the friction. The reduced roughness allows the molecules to glide past each other more effortlessly, thus faster. The key parameter of the method is the molecular roughness difference, a metric derived from a numerical comparison between the all-atom and coarse-grained molecular surfaces. This metric is expanded upon with four roughness volumes, which introduce the concept of specific areas where roughness changes occur and areas where they do not. The application scope of the RoughMob (Roughness and Mobility) method is systematically expanded. Starting from the development with a small set of seven simple hydrocarbon liquids containing six to eight carbon atoms, each represented by a single coarse-grained bead, the method is extended to include molecules ranging from five to 13 carbon atoms. This broader range also includes more aspherical all-atom models and introduces different mapping schemes. The refined approach is subsequently applied and adapted to binary mixtures at various compositions and concentrations of molecules within this expanded size range. The simple one-bead coarse-grained models are developed using structure-based iterative Boltzmann inversion, which matches the radial distribution functions of the coarse-grained model to the all-atom model through iterative adjustments. The geometrical information used for calculating the changes in roughness is derived from the structurally equilibrated atomistic trajectory and the nonbonded potentials of the models. The found connection between the roughness parameters and the acceleration factor enables an a priori prediction of the acceleration factor. Dynamical properties, such as the self-diffusion coefficient, can then be calculated from the cost-effective coarse-grained simulation and scaled to match the atomistic diffusion coefficient. For binary mixtures, the acceleration can be predicted by calculating the roughness parameters from those of pure components using simple averaging rules, supplemented by a correction term quadratic in the concentration, without the need for any additional calculations on the trajectories of the mixtures themselves. The study is currently limited to small, nonpolar hydrocarbon liquids simulated at a single state point. However, the results are promising for further development. Of particular interest is the expansion to polymeric systems, where typically one monomer unit corresponds to one or two coarse-grained beads — matching the degree of coarse-graining employed for hydrocarbons in this research. |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | molecular dynamics simulations, diffusion coefficient, hydrocarbon liquids, binary mixtures, molecular roughness difference, roughness volumes, dynamical acceleration upon coarse-graining | ||||
Status: | Publisher's Version | ||||
URN: | urn:nbn:de:tuda-tuprints-277853 | ||||
Classification DDC: | 500 Science and mathematics > 540 Chemistry | ||||
Divisions: | 07 Department of Chemistry > Eduard Zintl-Institut > Physical Chemistry 07 Department of Chemistry > Computational Physical Chemistry |
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Date Deposited: | 16 Aug 2024 12:42 | ||||
Last Modified: | 28 Aug 2024 06:27 | ||||
URI: | https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/id/eprint/27785 | ||||
PPN: | 520911563 | ||||
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