The last twenty-five years have seen a tremendous increase in computing power. It is therefore not surprising that computer simulations of melts and glasses have become an indispensable tool to study the structure and properties of geological materials in general and of melts and glasses in particular. Although many of the molecular-scale simulation methods had already been developed at the time of volume 32, Structure, Dynamics and Properties of Silicate Melts, of Reviews in Mineralogy (Stebbins et al. 1995), their applications were still quite limited. This is especially true for ab initio or first-principles simulations that are...

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