The structural stability of a coaxial carbon nanotube inside a boron-nitride nanotube (C@BNNT) is investigated by molecular dynamics simulation. The geometric structures of armchair C(5,5)@BN(n,n) and zigzag C(9,0)@BN(m,0) nanotubes (n = 8-15;m = 15-22) are optimized by the density functional theory method using the DMol3 code. A comparison of the variation in the tube radius and analyses of the bind energy and radial distribution function show that the best BN(n,n) nanotubes for coupling with C(5,5) to form C(5,5)@BN(n,n) are BN(10,10), and the best BN(m,0) nanotubes for coupling with C(9,0) ...