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Published on: September 17, 2021
Molecular dynamics simulation of confined fluids in isosurface-isothermal-isobaric ensemble
Hossein Eslami1, Farkhondeh Mozaffari, Jalil Moghadasi
1Eduard-Zintl Institut fur Anorganische und Physikalische Chemie, Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Petersenstrasse 20, D-64287, Germany. h.eslami@theo.chemie.tu-darmstadt.de
Abstract:
A method for the simulation of fluids confined between surfaces is developed. The molecular dynamics, with coupling to an external bath, simulation method of Berendsen et al. [J. Chem. Phys. 81, 3684 (1984)] is extended for this purpose. We keep the temperature and the parallel component of pressure fixed and change the box length in the perpendicular direction with respect to the confining surfaces to archive equilibrium. The simulation is easy to perform, especially in the case of solvation force computation. Employing this method, the simulation results on the confined Lennard-Jones and water are presented and are compared to previous grand canonical ensemble Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics simulation results. While consistent with other methods, our results show that spherical Lennard-Jones particles and water form layered structures parallel to the confining surfaces with enhanced layering with increasing pressure. Also we studied the oscillatory behaviors of solvation force and number density of confined particles as well as the stepwise variation of particle numbers as a function of separation between confining surfaces.
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