Available states and available space: Static properties that predict dynamics of confined fluids

Details Available states and available space: Static properties that predict dynamics of confined fluids Available states and available space: Static properties that predict dynamics of confined fluids

2009-01-19

arxiv.org/abs/0901.2917v1

Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment. P04006 (2009).

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

19 pages, 6 figures

Scientific paper

10.1088/1742-5468/2009/04/P04006

Although density functional theory provides reliable predictions for the static properties of simple fluids under confinement, a theory of comparative accuracy for the transport coefficients has yet to emerge. Nonetheless, there is evidence that knowledge of how confinement modifies static behavior can aid in forecasting dynamics. Specifically, molecular simulation studies have shown that the relationship between excess entropy and self diffusivity of a bulk equilibrium fluid changes only modestly when the fluid is isothermally confined, indicating that knowledge of the former might allow semi-quantitative predictions of the latter. Do other static measures, such as those that characterize free or available volume, also strongly correlate with single-particle dynamics of confined fluids? Here, we study this issue for both the single-component hard-sphere fluid and hard-sphere mixtures. Specifically, we use molecular simulations and fundamental measure theory to study these systems at approximately $10^3$ equilibrium state points. We examine three different confining geometries (slit pore, square channel, and cylindrical pore) and the effects of packing fraction and particle-boundary interactions. Although density fails to predict some key qualitative trends for the dynamics of confined fluids, we find that a new generalized measure of available volume for inhomogeneous fluids strongly correlates with the self diffusivity across a wide parameter space in these systems, approximately independent of the degree of confinement. An important consequence, which we demonstrate here, is that density functional theory predictions of this static property can be used together with knowledge of bulk fluid behavior to estimate the diffusion coefficient of confined fluids under equilibrium conditions.

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