This page can show links to 'cool' interesting things available on-line such as software and animations.

Breakthroughs in research etc. should probably go under "news" and also under "highlights" under research. These will need to be stories of success, highlighting value and significance of research done by RSC.

eg:

• Software
• Computer animations

 

Nonequilibrium Molecular Dynamics (NEMD) Programme

Prof. Denis Evans of the RSC has ported his nonequilibrium molecular dynamics programme NEMD to the Power Macintosh. To download this version by ftp click on NEMD_v.84PPC.sea.hqx

Note that NEMD is also available in a Motorola 68K version. To download this version by ftp click on NEMD_v.83.sea.hqx.

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Science Apps

A collection of interactive demonstrations of theoretical models of assorted physical phenomena and related mathematical subjects. The programs are designed to run on the Macintosh. The author is:

Prof. D. C. Rapaport
Physics Department
Bar-llan University
Ramat-Gan
Israel.
E-mail: f67241@vm.biu.ac.il

Peter J. Daivis has got together some really neat (QuickTime) movies of tridecane.

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Harold W. Schranz has generated a series of animations for a quantum and classical study of the nonlinear resonance between the symmetric bend and torsion modes in an ABBA type molecule (a model of dimethyl peroxide).

2:1 harmonic symmetric bend : harmonic torsion model of CH3OOCH3

4:1 harmonic symmetric bend : harmonic torsion model of CH3OOCH3

The calculations used an allocation of time on the Fujitsu VP-2200 of the Australian National University Supercomputer Facility (ANUSF) on which the sequences of data for the quantum wavepacket and classical trajectory computer animations were generated. The computer animations were created from the raw data with the able assistance of Roger Edberg of the ANUSF, using AVS version 5 on an SGI Onyx and a DEC 5000/240 platform.

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See also some further samples visualizations courtesy of the VizLab at the ANUSF.