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  • Thermodynamics
  • Statistical Mechanics
  • Computational Physics

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  • Evaporation is a fundamental process crucial for understanding phase transitions.
  • Simulating evaporation accurately, especially at the molecular level, presents significant computational challenges.
  • Existing methods often struggle with mass conservation and computational efficiency.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a novel, efficient, and accurate nonequilibrium method for simulating liquid evaporation using molecular dynamics.
  • To investigate the atomistic mechanisms governing evaporation across a planar interface.
  • To analyze the impact of hydrodynamic velocity on evaporation flux and particle velocity distributions.

Main Methods:

  • A new nonequilibrium molecular dynamics method is introduced, avoiding problematic particle insertions.
  • The algorithm is designed for low complexity and suitability for massively parallel simulations.
  • Spatially resolved classical profiles (temperature, density, force) and velocity distributions were sampled at high resolution.

Main Results:

  • The evaporation flux increases asymptotically with hydrodynamic velocity, reaching 90% of maximum at half the speed of sound.
  • Deviations from the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution were observed for transversal particle velocity near the interface.
  • Temperature differences between transversal and longitudinal components were noted in the vapor, with equipartition re-established further away.

Conclusions:

  • The developed method offers high statistical accuracy and efficiency for simulating evaporation.
  • The study elucidates atomistic mechanisms of evaporation, highlighting the role of the potential well in particle escape.
  • Understanding these mechanisms is vital for various applications involving phase transitions and fluid dynamics.