[HTML][HTML] A perspective on the microscopic pressure (stress) tensor: History, current understanding, and future challenges

K Shi, ER Smith, EE Santiso… - The Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The pressure tensor (equivalent to the negative stress tensor) at both microscopic and
macroscopic levels is fundamental to many aspects of engineering and science, including …

Necking and failure of a particulate gel strand: signatures of yielding on different length scales

K Thijssen, TB Liverpool, CP Royall, RL Jack - Soft Matter, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
“Sticky” spheres with a short-ranged attraction are a basic model of a wide range of
materials from the atomic to the granular length scale. Among the complex phenomena …

[HTML][HTML] Estimation of bubble cavitation rates in a symmetrical Lennard-Jones mixture by NVT seeding simulations

CP Lamas, E Sanz, C Vega, EG Noya - The Journal of chemical …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The liquid–vapor transition starts with the formation of a sufficiently large bubble in the
metastable liquid to trigger the phase transition. Understanding this process is of …

Prediction of interfacial shear strength of CNT overwrapped carbon fibers using molecular dynamics and Fourier series decomposition of surface asperities

T Sohail, R Sweat, H Lu, R Baughman… - Composite Interfaces, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This paper aims to develop a novel approach to determining the fiber/matrix interfacial shear
strength (IFSS) due to both carbon fiber roughness and the presence of carbon nanotubes …

Osmotic pressure and transport coefficient in ultrafiltration: A Monte Carlo study using quantum surface charges

F Petrosino, Y Hallez, G De Luca, S Curcio - Chemical Engineering Science, 2020 - Elsevier
The calculation of the Osmotic Pressure and the Diffusion Coefficient, characterizing the
cake layer developing during the Ultrafiltration (UF) of Bovine Serum Albumin (BSA) …

The importance of reference frame for pressure at the liquid–vapour interface

ER Smith - Molecular Simulation, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The local pressure tensor is non-unique, a fact which has generated confusion and debate
in the 70 years since the seminal work by Irving Kirkwood. This non-uniqueness is normally …

Investigating surface effect on stress concentration in amorphous carbon materials with nano-scale pores: A molecular dynamics study

AH Banna, S Roy - Mechanics of Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
This article investigates the impact of nano-scaled pore on the mechanical properties of
amorphous carbon (aC) as a potential anode material for energy storage batteries …

[HTML][HTML] Equilibrium evaporation coefficients quantified as transmission probabilities for monatomic fluids

MCW Wolf, R Enright, SV Gaastra-Nedea… - Physics of Fluids, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Equilibrium molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are used to investigate the liquid/vapor
interface where particle exchange between the liquid and vapor phase is quantified in terms …

CPL library—a minimal framework for coupled particle and continuum simulation

ER Smith, DJ Trevelyan, E Ramos-Fernandez… - Computer Physics …, 2020 - Elsevier
We present an open-source library for coupling particle codes, such as molecular dynamics
(MD) or the discrete element method (DEM), and grid based computational fluid dynamics …

Intrinsic Stress Field for Liquid Surfaces

ZF Yuan, BB Laird, CJ Xia, XM Ma, HT Liang, Y Yang - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
The microscopic stress field inhomogeneity in the interfacial region adjacent to the liquid
surface is the fundamental origin of the liquid surface tension, but because of broadening …