Meanings
nounBerendsen thermostat (plural Berendsen thermostats)
plural Berendsen thermostats
- An algorithm to rescale the velocities of particles in molecular dynamics simulations to control the simulation temperature.
Origin
Named after Herman Berendsen.
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