2006 (UTC)

Hi Jorgenumata. I liked all the additions you have made. I myself have worked in metals on the physics side, so I can add some things. But actually, for the overall structure, I think it would be useful to discuss some of the ways that MD is used in different fields on the talk page so that we can incorporate the different uses of MD more fully. Most people are focused on their on field, and don't see outside it (me included), so it is kind of hard to incorporate all the different things into one article.
The merge discussion with MM is an example. Metals cannot be modelled by force fields. They are completely incompatible with the force field view of molecules, and from reading the MM page, MM only uses force fields. So it seems impossible to merge the articles. Anyway, enoough of my blabbing. The things that I am interested in knowing are what/how MD is used in different fields.

Fluid/aerodynamics: Do fluid dynamics / aerodynamics people use the billiard-ball approximation of atoms to model fluids, and are these methods considered molecular dynamics if they consider each atom individually?
Metals: We don't use force fields. Generally, TBSMA or equivalent is the least accurate/most empirical that can be used. Tight-binding and ab initio are far more common. Anyway, I can add a lot of metals things myself, so don't need much input here.
Semiconductors: Again, force fields are not used. However, requires very different approximations to metal simulations. Again, I can add stuff to the article on these.
Chemists: What exactly do chemists study? Are the chemical reactions always studied within a solvent, or are they studied on isolated chemical compounds? Is it always important to correctly model the temperature and pressure, or are these secondary considerations in chemical MD simulations?
Bio: Similar to chemistry, are temperature and pressure important? Do proteins get modelled within the context of a solvent, or are conformations studied on the basis of a single protein molecule with no external interactions?
So, I'll try to add some metals and semiconductor things to the article, but I don't want to break the chem/bio side. Will come back in maybe a week and try to do some additions.  09:09, 21 November