Physics – Condensed Matter – Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
1999-10-25
Physics
Condensed Matter
Soft Condensed Matter
27 pages, 9 figures, submitted to J. Chem. Phys
Scientific paper
10.1063/1.480809
The aim of this study is to understand deeper the thermal diffusion transport process (Ludwig-Soret effect) at the microscopic level. For that purpose, the recently developed reverse nonequilibrium molecular dynamics method was used to calculate Soret coefficients of various systems in a systematic fashion. We studied binary Lennard-Jones (LJ) fluids near the triple point (of one of the components) in which we separately changed the ratio of one of the LJ parameters mass, atomic diameter and interaction strength while keeping all other parameters fixed and identical. We observed that the magnitude of the Soret coefficient depends on all three ratios. Concerning its sign we found that heavier species, smaller species and species with higher interaction strengths tend to accumulate in the cold region whereas the other ones (lighter, bigger or weaker bound) migrate to the hot region of our simulation cell. Additionally, the superposition of the influence of the various parameters was investigated as well as more realistic mixtures. We found that in the experimentally relevant parameter range the contributions are nearly additive and that the mass ratio often is the dominating factor.
Mueller-Plathe Florian
Reith Dirk
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