1.8 MD simulation and types

An MD simulation is a tool that studies the microscopic model in a macroscopic system, and this model is quantified in terms of intermolecular interaction and the molecular structure. The results are obtained with accuracy through different simulation techniques (algorithm) and compared with theoretical and experimental results. Simulations are also used to study the wave properties of complex models at the microscopic level which cannot be investigated by experiments [37]. There are several computational techniques that have advantages and also disadvantages with their respective fields. Monte Carlo (MC) and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are influential tools for the study of transport properties of dusty plasma. Transport properties can also be calculated by Langevin dynamics (LD), MC, path integral MC (PIMC) and MD methods. The disadvantage of the MC technique is that it cannot evaluate the transport properties of dynamical systems and cannot solve and apply the equations of motion [38].
