Molecular dynamics (MD) and volume of fluid (VOF) are powerful methods for the simulation of dynamic wetting at the nanoscale and macroscale, respectively, but the massive computational cost of MD and the sensitivity and uncertainty of boundary conditions in VOF limit their applications to other scales. In this work, we propose a multiscale simulation strategy by enhancing VOF simulations using self-consistent boundary conditions derived from MD. Specifically, the boundary conditions include a particular slip model based on the molecular kinetic theory for the three-phase contact line to account for the interfacial molecular physics, the classical Navier slip model for the remaining part of the liquid-solid interface, and a new source term supplemented to the momentum equation in VOF to replace the convectional dynamic contact angle model. Each slip model has been calibrated by the MD simulations. The simulation results demonstrate that with these new boundary conditions, the enhanced VOF simulations can provide consistent predictions with full MD simulations for the dynamic wetting of nanodroplets on both smooth and pillared surfaces, and its performance is better than those with other VOF models, especially for the pinning-
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