Long range correction for wall-fluid interaction in molecular dynamic simulations

A new method is proposed for correctly modeling the long range interaction between a fluid and a bounding wall in atomistic simulations. This method incorporates the molecular structure of the solid substrate while allowing for a finite interaction cutoff by making a proper estimation of long range...

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Main Authors: He, Gang, Hadjiconstantinou, Nicolas G.
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: 2003
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/3886
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Summary:A new method is proposed for correctly modeling the long range interaction between a fluid and a bounding wall in atomistic simulations. This method incorporates the molecular structure of the solid substrate while allowing for a finite interaction cutoff by making a proper estimation of long range correction for the fluid-wall interaction. The method is then applied to a molecular dynamic simulation of a spreading droplet. Conparison to simulations using several other previously used methods shows that the long range correction can be significant in some circumstances.