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| author | Horsch, Martin Thomas |
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| contents | This work addresses four problems in defining and computing the surface tension of vapour-liquid interfaces: (1) The apparent kinetic contribution to the surface tension, and what it is that makes it appear; (2) the problem of defining the local virial, which for some purposes appears to be necessary; (3) the disagreement between results for spherical interfaces when using different methods, specifically the virial and the test area method; (4) how the surface tension values obtained from these methods can be related to the definition of the surface tension from thermodynamics - since if they cannot, it is a meaningless exercise to compute them. At the end, all these problems remain unsolved: They are "open questions." |
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| spellingShingle | Open questions on defining and computing the vapour-liquid surface tension by virial and test transformation approaches Horsch, Martin Thomas Soft Condensed Matter Computational Physics This work addresses four problems in defining and computing the surface tension of vapour-liquid interfaces: (1) The apparent kinetic contribution to the surface tension, and what it is that makes it appear; (2) the problem of defining the local virial, which for some purposes appears to be necessary; (3) the disagreement between results for spherical interfaces when using different methods, specifically the virial and the test area method; (4) how the surface tension values obtained from these methods can be related to the definition of the surface tension from thermodynamics - since if they cannot, it is a meaningless exercise to compute them. At the end, all these problems remain unsolved: They are "open questions." |
| title | Open questions on defining and computing the vapour-liquid surface tension by virial and test transformation approaches |
| topic | Soft Condensed Matter Computational Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.12755 |