NON-EQUILIBRIUM MOLECULAR DYNAMICS USED TO OBTAIN SORET COEFFICIENTS OF BINARY HYDROCARBON MIXTURES
AUTOR(ES)
Furtado, F. A., Silveira, A. J., Abreu, C. R. A., Tavares, F. W.
FONTE
Braz. J. Chem. Eng.
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2015-09
RESUMO
Abstract The Boundary Driven Non-Equilibrium Molecular Dynamics (BD-NEMD) method is employed to evaluate Soret coefficients of binary mixtures. Using a n-decane/n-pentane mixture at 298 K, we study several parameters and conditions of the simulation procedure such as system size, time step size, frequency of perturbation, and the undesired warming up of the system during the simulation. The Soret coefficients obtained here deviated around 20% when comparing with experimental data and with simulated results from the literature. We showed that fluctuations in composition gradients and the consequent deviations of the Soret coefficient may be due to characteristic fluctuations of the composition gradient. Best results were obtained with the smallest time steps and without using a thermostat, which shows that there is room for improvement and/or development of new BD-NEMD algorithms.
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