Freezing Transition Studies Through Constrained Cell Model Simulation Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013. In the present work, a simulation method based on cell models is used to deduce the fluidsolid transition of a system of particles that interact via a pair potential, (r), which is of the form (r) = 4[(/r) 2n (/r) n ] with n = 10. The simulations are implemented under constant-pressure conditions on a generalized version of the constrained cell model. The constrained cell model is constructed by dividing the volume into WignerSeitz cells and confining each particle in a single cell. This model is a special case of a more general cell model which is formed by introducing an additional field variable that controls the number of particles per cell and, thus, the relative stability of the solid against the fluid phase. High field values force configurations with one particle per cell and thus favor the solid phase. Fluidsolid coexistence on the isotherm that corresponds to a reduced temperature of 2 is determined from constant-pressure simulations of the generalized cell model using tempering and histogram reweighting techniques. The entire fluidsolid phase boundary is determined through a thermodynamic integration technique based on histogram reweighting, using the previous coexistence point as a reference point. The vaporliquid phase diagram is obtained from constant-pressure simulations of the unconstrained system using tempering and histogram reweighting. The phase diagram of the system is found to contain a stable critical point and a triple point. The phase diagram of the corresponding constrained cell model is also found to contain both a stable critical point and a triple point.

published proceedings

  • International Journal of Thermophysics

author list (cited authors)

  • Nayhouse, M., Kwon, J., Heng, V. R., Amlani, A. M., & Orkoulas, G.

citation count

  • 0

complete list of authors

  • Nayhouse, Michael||Kwon, Joseph Sang-Il||Heng, Vincent R||Amlani, Ankur M||Orkoulas, G

publication date

  • October 2014