• For our system of polymers, the is found to be 2.25 +/- 0.05 given the model of inter- and intra-polymer interactions.

• Coexistence curve of the polymer system was found, and the critical temperature was found to be 1.9 +/- 0.1, rho_c = 0.08 +/- 0.002.

• Configurational-bias method is found be more efficient than the reptation method in the given system.

 

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Future Improvements

• A potential cutoff radius can be employed to reduce the computation time of the configurational-bias method and improve the efficiency of the algorithm.

•  Large fluctuations in the energy virial coefficient were observed during the simulation.  Since this virial coefficient is used to calculate the pressure and chemical potential, it would be useful to find a new method to reduce the fluctuations of these quantities. 

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