Monte Carlo versus molecular dynamics simulations in heterogeneous systems: An application to the n-pentane liquid-vapor interface

F Goujon, P Malfreyt, JM Simon, A Boutin… - The Journal of …, 2004 - pubs.aip.org
The Monte Carlo (MC) and molecular dynamics (MD) methodologies are now well
established for computing equilibrium properties in homogeneous fluids. This is not yet the …

Direct Monte Carlo simulations of the equilibrium properties of n-pentane liquid–vapor interface

F Goujon, P Malfreyt, A Boutin, AH Fuchs - The Journal of chemical …, 2002 - pubs.aip.org
Direct MC calculations have been carried out to study the liquid–vapor equilibrium of n-
pentane. We have used the local long range correction to the configurational energy within …

Molecular simulations of the -alkane liquid-vapor interface: Interfacial properties and their long range corrections

C Ibergay, A Ghoufi, F Goujon, P Ungerer, A Boutin… - Physical Review E …, 2007 - APS
Monte Carlo simulations have been performed to study the interfacial properties of the liquid-
vapor interface of alkanes. We highlight the chemical equilibrium of the liquid-vapor …

Test-area simulation method for the direct determination of the interfacial tension of systems with continuous or discontinuous potentials

GJ Gloor, G Jackson, FJ Blas… - The Journal of chemical …, 2005 - pubs.aip.org
A novel test-area (TA) technique for the direct simulation of the interfacial tension of systems
interacting through arbitrary intermolecular potentials is presented in this paper. The most …

Prediction of the Surface Tension of the Liquid− Vapor Interface of Alcohols from Monte Carlo Simulations

F Biscay, A Ghoufi, V Lachet… - The Journal of Physical …, 2011 - ACS Publications
We report the calculation of the surface tension of the liquid− vapor interface of alcohols by
two-phase Monte Carlo simulations. The anisotropic united atom model (AUA4) extended to …

Molecular dynamics simulation of the liquid–vapor interface: The Lennard-Jones fluid

M Mecke, J Winkelmann, J Fischer - The Journal of chemical physics, 1997 - pubs.aip.org
In this work we present new molecular dynamics simulation results for the liquid–vapor
interface of the pure Lennard-Jones fluid. Our aims were further investigations on the …

Determination of surface tension in binary mixtures using transition-matrix Monte Carlo

VK Shen, JR Errington - The Journal of chemical physics, 2006 - pubs.aip.org
We present a methodology based on grand-canonical transition-matrix Monte Carlo and
finite-size scaling analysis to calculate surface tensions in binary mixtures. In particular …

A guide to computing interfacial properties of fluids from molecular simulations [Article v1. 0]

EA Muller, Å Ervik, A Mejía - Living Journal of Computational …, 2020 - livecomsjournal.org
Molecular simulation is ideally suited to explore and describe the behavior of
inhomogeneous fluid mixtures as it allows a unique perspective into the physics at the scale …

Influence of the long-range corrections on the interfacial properties of molecular models using Monte Carlo simulation

JM Míguez, MM Piñeiro, FJ Blas - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
We analyze the influence of the long-range corrections, due to the dispersive term of the
intermolecular potential energy, on the surface tension using direct simulation of the vapour …

Some issues on the calculation of interfacial properties by molecular simulation

D Duque, LF Vega - The Journal of chemical physics, 2004 - pubs.aip.org
Some of the pitfalls that may befall molecular simulations of interfaces are discussed. They
are all related to the calculation of the pressure tensor profiles, which are needed in order to …