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@article{Heyes:2021:10.1063/5.0040106,
author = {Heyes, DM and Dini, D and Smith, ER},
doi = {10.1063/5.0040106},
journal = {Journal of Chemical Physics},
title = {Viscuit and the fluctuation theorem investigation of shear viscosity by molecular dynamics simulations: the information and the noise},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0040106},
volume = {154},
year = {2021}
}
TY - JOUR
AB - The shear viscosity, η, of model liquids and solids is investigated within the framework of the viscuit and Fluctuation Theorem (FT) probability distribution function (PDF) theories, following Heyes et al. [J. Chem. Phys. 152, 194504 (2020)] using equilibrium molecular dynamics (MD) simulations on Lennard-Jones and Weeks–Chandler–Andersen model systems. The viscosity can be obtained in equilibrium MD simulation from the first moment of the viscuit PDF, which is shown for finite simulation lengths to give a less noisy plateau region than the Green–Kubo method. Two other formulas for the shear viscosity in terms of the viscuit and PDF analysis are also derived. A separation of the time-dependent average negative and positive viscuits extrapolated from the noise dominated region to zero time provides another route to η. The third method involves the relative number of positive and negative viscuits and their PDF standard deviations on the two sides for an equilibrium system. For the FT and finite shear rates, accurate analytic expressions for the relative number of positive to negative block average shear stresses is derived assuming a shifted Gaussian PDF, which is shown to agree well with non-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations. A similar treatment of the positive and negative block average contributions to the viscosity is also shown to match the simulation data very well.
AU - Heyes,DM
AU - Dini,D
AU - Smith,ER
DO - 10.1063/5.0040106
PY - 2021///
SN - 0021-9606
TI - Viscuit and the fluctuation theorem investigation of shear viscosity by molecular dynamics simulations: the information and the noise
T2 - Journal of Chemical Physics
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0040106
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UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/87790
VL - 154
ER -