RPMDrate: Bimolecular chemical reaction rates from ring polymer molecular dynamics
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ArticleKAUST Grant Number
KUS-I1-010-01Date
2013-03Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/599542
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We present RPMDrate, a computer program for the calculation of gas phase bimolecular reaction rate coefficients using the ring polymer molecular dynamics (RPMD) method. The RPMD rate coefficient is calculated using the Bennett-Chandler method as a product of a static (centroid density quantum transition state theory (QTST) rate) and a dynamic (ring polymer transmission coefficient) factor. The computational procedure is general and can be used to treat bimolecular polyatomic reactions of any complexity in their full dimensionality. The program has been tested for the H+H2, H+CH 4, OH+CH4 and H+C2H6 reactions. © 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.Citation
Suleimanov YV, Allen JW, Green WH (2013) RPMDrate: Bimolecular chemical reaction rates from ring polymer molecular dynamics. Computer Physics Communications 184: 833–840. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2012.10.017.Sponsors
This work is supported by the US Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences under the Energy Frontier Research Center for Combustion Science (Grant No. DE-SC0001198). Y.V.S. acknowledges the support of a Combustion Energy Research Fellowship through the Energy Frontier Research Center for Combustion Science. J.W.A acknowledges Award No. KUS-I1-010-01 made by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).Publisher
Elsevier BVJournal
Computer Physics Communicationsae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1016/j.cpc.2012.10.017