Computer simulation techniques

• Boundary conditions
• Coarse graining
• Configuration analysis
• Electrostatics
• Ergodic hypothesis
• Finite size effects
• Force fields
• Materials modeling and computer simulation codes
• Models
• Molecular dynamics
• Monte Carlo
• Parallel tempering
• Verlet neighbour list
• Wang-Landau method
• Widom test-particle method
• Computation of phase equilibria

Interesting reading

• Daan Frenkel and Jean-Pierre Hansen "Understanding liquids: a computer game?", Physics World 9 pp. 35–42 (April 1996)