Wetting and drying of an inert wall by a fluid in a molecular-dynamics simulation

Density profiles of Ar adsorbed in slits of CO2: Spontaneous symmetry breaking revisited

“…1-3 of Ref. 28. From a glance at Table I one realizes that as long as the film wetting solution exists the drying one is a symmetric excited state.…”

“…1 can be understood in terms of findings described in Refs. [25][26][27][28]. By locating hard-wall repulsions the authors of Ref.…”

“…Furthermore, it is shown that the spacial shape of the obtained solutions correspond to the three sorts of profiles discussed in Refs. [25][26][27][28]. The strength of the attraction determines which one of that profiles is the stable solution.…”

“…When the location of this hard wall is moved, the strength of the adsorption potential is varied, allowing a connection to the studies described in Refs. [25][26][27][28]30, and 31. Several properties of the obtained solutions are discussed.…”

“…About 20 years ago a Dutch Collaboration has carried out calculations on the Delft Molecular Dynamics Processor ͑DMDP͒, which was specially designed for molecular dynamics ͑MD͒ simulations of simple fluids. 23,24 The results were published in a series of papers by Sikkenk et al 25,26 and Nijmeijer et al 27,28 The simulations were performed for a canonical ensemble with two types of particles, 2904 of one type for building a solid substrate and several thousand of the other type for composing the fluid adsorbate. The temperature of the system was kept at T * = k B T / f f = 0.9 which is in between the fluid's triple-point temperature T t * Ӎ 0.7 and the critical temperature T c * Ӎ 1.3.…”