Table of Contents

1 Introduction to simulations and statistical mechanics.- 2 Liquid crystal observables: static and dynamic properties.- 3 Phase behavior of lyotropic liquid crystals.- 4 Modelling liquid crystal structure, phase behaviour and large-scale phenomena.- 5 Liquid crystal lattice models I. Bulk systems.- 6 Liquid crystal lattice models II. Confined systems.- 7 Computer simulation of lyotropic liquid crystals as models of biological membranes.- 8 Flow properties and structure of anisotropic fluids studied by non-equilibrium molecular dynamics, and flow properties of other complex fluids: polymeric liquids, ferro-fluids and magneto-rheological fluids.- 9 Self atom-atom empirical potentials for the static and dynamic simulation of condensed phases.- 10 Atomistic modelling of liquid crystal phases.- 11 Atomistic simulation and modeling of smectic liquid crystals.- 12 Multiple time steps algorithms for the atomistic simulations of complex molecular systems.- 13 Parallel molecular dynamics techniques for the simulation of anisotropic systems.