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Properties of liquid clusters in large-scale molecular dynamics nucleation simulations
| Title: | Properties of liquid clusters in large-scale molecular dynamics nucleation simulations |
| Authors: | Angélil, Raymond Browse this author | | Diemand, Jürg Browse this author | | Tanaka, Kyoko K Browse this author →KAKEN DB | | Tanaka, Hidekazu Browse this author →KAKEN DB |
| Issue Date: | 2014 |
| Publisher: | American Institute of Physics |
| Journal Title: | Journal of Chemical Physics |
| Volume: | 140 |
| Issue: | 7 |
| Start Page: | 074303 |
| Publisher DOI: | 10.1063/1.4865256 |
| PMID: | 24559349 |
| Abstract: | We have performed large-scale Lennard-Jones molecular dynamics simulations of homogeneous vapor-to-liquid nucleation, with 109 atoms. This large number allows us to resolve extremely low nucleation rates, and also provides excellent statistics for cluster properties over a wide range of cluster sizes. The nucleation rates, cluster growth rates, and size distributions are presented in Diemand et al. [J. Chem. Phys.139, 74309 (2013)], while this paper analyses the properties of the clusters. We explore the cluster temperatures, density profiles, potential energies, and shapes. A thorough understanding of the properties of the clusters is crucial to the formulation of nucleation models. Significant latent heat is retained by stable clusters, by as much as ΔkT = 0.1ε for clusters with size i = 100. We find that the clusters deviate remarkably from spherical—with ellipsoidal axis ratios for critical cluster sizes typically within b/c = 0.7 ± 0.05 and a/c = 0.5 ± 0.05. We examine cluster spin angular momentum, and find that it plays a negligible role in the cluster dynamics. The interfaces of large, stable clusters are thinner than planar equilibrium interfaces by 10%−30%. At the critical cluster size, the cluster central densities are between 5% and 30% lower than the bulk liquid expectations. These lower densities imply larger-than-expected surface areas, which increase the energy cost to form a surface, which lowers nucleation rates. |
| Rights: | Copyright 2014 American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics. The following article appeared in J. Chem. Phys. 140, 074303 (2014) and may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4865256. |
| Type: | article |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2115/57528 |
| Appears in Collections: | 低温科学研究所 (Institute of Low Temperature Science) > 雑誌発表論文等 (Peer-reviewed Journal Articles, etc)
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