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CPP: Fachverband Chemische Physik und Polymerphysik
CPP 17: Confined Fluids
CPP 17.4: Talk
Tuesday, March 24, 2009, 10:15–10:30, ZEU 160
Molecular dynamics simulation of evaporation processes of fluid bridges confined in slit-like pore — •Katarzyna Bucior, Leonid Yelash, and Kurt Binder — Institute of Physics, Johannes-Gutenberg University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany
We study a simple fluid, described by point-like particles interacting via the Lennard-Jones potential, under confinement in a slit geometry between two walls at distance Lz apart for densities inside the vapor-liquid coexistence curve. Equilibrium then requires the coexistence of a liquid “bridge” between the two walls, and vapor in the remaining pore volume. We study this equilibrium for several choices of the wall-fluid interaction (corresponding to the full range from complete wetting to complete drying, for a macroscopically thick film), and consider also the kinetics of state changes in such a system. In particular, we study how this equilibrium is established by diffusion processes, when a liquid is inserted into an initially empty capillary (partial or complete evaporation into vacuum), or when the volume available for the vapor phase increases. We compare the diffusion constants describing the rates of these processes in such inhomogeneous systems to the diffusion constants in the corresponding bulk liquid and vapor phases.