GenEvaPa: A generic evaporation package for modeling evaporation in molecular dynamics simulations
- Award ID(s):
- 1808829
- PAR ID:
- 10429597
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Computer Physics Communications
- Volume:
- 282
- Issue:
- C
- ISSN:
- 0010-4655
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 108539
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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