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  • Thermodynamics
  • Computational Chemistry
  • Fluid Dynamics

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  • Accurately predicting multicomponent fluid properties is crucial for various scientific and engineering applications.
  • Traditional molecular simulations can be computationally intensive, especially for exploring diverse thermodynamic conditions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a methodology for extrapolating structural properties of multicomponent fluids between thermodynamic states.
  • To enhance the computational efficiency of molecular simulations for fluid property analysis.

Main Methods:

  • Utilizing fluctuations in extensive thermodynamic variables (e.g., energy) to build Taylor series expansions.
  • Expanding structural properties (e.g., radial distribution functions) in terms of intensive conjugate variables (e.g., temperature, chemical potential).
  • Demonstrating the approach for simple and coarse-grained fluids in canonical and grand canonical ensembles.

Main Results:

  • The methodology successfully approximates structural properties of fluids over a wide range of thermodynamic conditions.
  • Extrapolation accuracy is reasonable, providing a viable alternative to direct simulation for certain properties.
  • The approach is applicable to variations in temperature and chemical potentials of different components.

Conclusions:

  • This extrapolation technique offers a significant increase in computational efficiency for molecular simulations.
  • The method is particularly beneficial for high-throughput and data-driven investigations of fluid systems.
  • The approach provides a powerful tool for exploring the phase space of multicomponent fluids more effectively.