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Published on: February 6, 2014
Confined molecules under shear: from a microscopic description to phenomenology
A E Filippov1, J Klafter, M Urbakh
1Donetsk Institute for Physics and Engineering of NASU, 83144, Donetsk, Ukraine.
Abstract:
A coarse grained two-state model is derived starting from a molecular dynamics description of a molecular system under shear. This model captures the main features of the response of a confined system under shear, and generalizes the phenomenological Tomlinson model for the response of a driven system. The derivation is based on the solution of coupled microscopic equations using a mean field approximation. The two-state model agrees well with the direct numerical solution and offers a practical approach to investigate the response of sheared systems under a broad range of parameters.
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