Transport phenomena and microscopic structure in partially miscible binary fluids: A simulation study of the symmetrical Lennard-Jones mixture

Details Transport phenomena and microscopic structure in partially miscible binary fluids: A simulation study of the symmetrical Lennard-Jones mixture Transport phenomena and microscopic structure in partially miscible binary fluids: A simulation study of the symmetrical Lennard-Jones mixture

2003-02-21

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0302439v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

33 pages, 14 figures

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.1580106

Static and dynamic structure factors and various transport coefficients are computed for a Lennard-Jones model of a binary fluid (A,B) with a symmetrical miscibility gap, varying both temperature and relative concentration of the mixture. The model is first equilibrated by a semi-grandcanonical Monte Carlo method, choosing the temperature and chemical potential difference $\Delta \mu$ between the two species as the given independent variables. Varying for $\Delta \mu=0$ the temperature and particle number $N$ over a wide range, the location of the coexistence curve in the thermodynamic limit is estimated. Well-equilibrated configurations from these Monte Carlo runs are used as initial states for microcanonical Molecular Dynamics runs, in order to study the microscopic structure and the behavior of transport coefficients as well as dynamic correlation functions along the coexistence curve. Dynamic structure factors $S_{\alpha \beta} (q,t)$ (and the corresponding static functions $S_{\alpha \beta} (q)$) are recorded ($\alpha, \beta, \in$ A,B), $q$ being the wavenumber and $t$ the time, as well as the mean square displacements of the particles (to obtain the self-diffusion constants $D_{\rm A}$, $D_{\rm B}$) and transport coefficients describing collective transport, such as the interdiffusion constant and the shear viscosity. The minority species is found to diffuse a bit faster than the majority species. Despite the presence of strong concentration fluctuations in the system the Stokes-Einstein relation is a reasonable approximation.

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