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Computer simulation study of the interface width of the liquid/liquid interface
1Department of Chemistry CB 3290, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, USA.
Physical Review Letters
|November 3, 2001
Abstract:
Four molecular dynamics computer simulations have been performed to study the intrinsic width and the width due to thermal fluctuations of the water/carbon tetrachloride interface. We observed that thermal fluctuations have a capillary wave character. The surface tension calculated by using capillary wave formalism shows a very good agreement with the value obtained from the components of the pressure tensor.