Local stress tensor calculation by the method-of-plane in microscopic systems with macroscopic flow: A formulation based on the velocity distribution function
- 8 November 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in The Journal of Chemical Physics
- Vol. 155 (18), 184103
- https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0062889
Abstract
In this work, we developed a calculation method of local stress tensor applicable to non-equilibrium molecular dynamics (NEMD) systems, which evaluates the macroscopic momentum advection and the kinetic term of the stress in the framework of the Method of Plane (MoP), in a consistent way to guarantee the mass and momentum conservation. From the relation between the macroscopic velocity distribution function and the microscopic molecular passage across a fixed control plane, we derived a method to calculate the basic properties of the macroscopic momentum conservation law including the density, the velocity, the momentum flux, the interaction and kinetic terms of the stress tensor defined on a surface with a finite area. Any component of the streaming velocity can be obtained on a control surface, which enables the separation of the kinetic momentum flux into the advection and stress terms in the framework of MoP, and this enebles strict satisfaction of the the mass and momentum conservation for an arbitrary closed control volume (CV) set in NEMD systems. We validated the present method through the extraction of the density, velocity and stress distributions in a quasi-1D steady-state Couette flow system and in a quasi-2D steady-state NEMD system with a moving contact line. We showed that with the present MoP, in contrast to the volume average method (VA), the conservation law was satisfied even for a CV set around the moving contact line, which was located in a strongly inhomogeneous region.Funding Information
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JP20J20251, JP18K03929, JP18K03978)
- Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (JPMJCR18I1)
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