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A Novel Monte Carlo Approach to the Dynamics of Fluids --- Single Particle Diffusion, Correlation Functions and Phase Ordering of Binary Fluids

Condensed Matter 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We propose a new Monte Carlo scheme to study the late-time dynamics of a 2-dim hard sphere fluid, modeled by a tethered network of hard spheres. Fluidity is simulated by breaking and reattaching the flexible tethers. We study the diffusion of a tagged particle, and show that the velocity autocorrelation function has a long-time t1t^{-1} tail. We investigate the dynamics of phase separation of a binary fluid at late times, and show that the domain size R(t)R(t) grows as t1/2t^{1/2} for high viscosity fluids with a crossover to t2/3t^{2/3} for low viscosity fluids. Our scheme can accomodate particles interacting with a pair potential V(r)V(r),and modified to study dynamics of fluids in three dimensions.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9603168,
  title  = {A Novel Monte Carlo Approach to the Dynamics of Fluids --- Single Particle Diffusion, Correlation Functions and Phase Ordering of Binary Fluids},
  author = {P. B. Sunil Kumar and Madan Rao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9603168},
  year   = {2007}
}

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Latex, 4 pages, 4 figures