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Viabilty of atomistic potentials for thermodynamic properties of carbon dioxide at low temperatures
Tatyana Kuznetsova1, Bjørn Kvamme
1Department of Physics, University of Bergen, Allegt. 55, 5007 Bergen, Norway.
Abstract:
Investigation into volumetric and energetic properties of several atomistic models mimicking carbon dioxide geometry and quadrupole momentum covered the liquid-vapor coexistence curve. Thermodynamic integration over a polynomial and an exponential-polynomial path was used to calculate free energy. Computational results showed that model using GROMOS Lennard-Jones parameters was unsuitable for bulk CO(2) simulations. On the other hand, model with potential fitted to reproduce only correct density-pressure relationship in the supercritical region proved to yield correct enthalpy of vaporization and free energy of liquid CO(2) in the low-temperature region. Except for molar volume at the upper part of the vapor-liquid equilibrium line, the bulk properties of exp-6-1 parametrization of ab initio CO(2) potential were in a close agreement with the experimental results. Copyright 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Comput Chem 22: 1772-1781, 2001
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