A technique for the calculation of mass, energy, and momentum densities at planes in molecular dynamics simulations
- 15 June 1996
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in The Journal of Chemical Physics
- Vol. 104 (23) , 9651-9653
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.471718
Abstract
We present a new technique for the evaluation of hydrodynamic densities (for example mass, energy or momentum densities) at planes in molecular dynamics simulations. This technique employs an easily computed expression for the density at a plane that is formally exact, unlike other expressions such as histogram approximations. We present simple examples of applications of this procedure to the calculation of mass and momentum densities, and hence the streaming velocity, at planes in a fluid undergoing planar Poiseuille flow, and show how the temperature profile can be obtained by the same procedure.Keywords
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