Nonequilibrium states by molecular dynamics: Transport coefficients in constrained fluids

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Abstract
We present here a study of the behavior of fluid systems under external constraints by molecular dynamics with stochastic boundary conditions. We investigate the validity of the local-equilibrium hypothesis. The agreement between measured local physical properties and those predicted by a first-order Chapman-Enskog theory is remarkable. We also discuss the difficulty of the measurement of local time-correlation functions.