Rotational viscosity of uniaxial molecules

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By this author: Delhommelle J.

Author: Delhommelle J.

Source: Molecular Physics, Volume 100, Number 21, 10 November 2002 , pp. 3479-3482(4)

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Abstract:

Non-equilibrium molecular dynamics (NEMD) are used to calculate the vortex or rotational viscosity of fluids composed of uniaxial molecules. It is shown that the NEMD homogeneous spin flow algorithm proposed by Edberg, R., Evans, D. J., and Moriss, G. P., 1987, Molec. Phys., 62, 1357 considerably underestimates the vortex viscosity. A modified version of this algorithm is proposed and applied to liquid chlorine and nitrogen. The results are in good agreement with previous work using equilibrium or other NEMD methods, and also show that at high spin rates the vortex viscosity decreases with increase in magnitude of the external torque used to drive the spin flow.

Document Type: Research article

Publication date: 2002-11-10

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