Molecular Simulation of Thermo-osmotic Slip
Published in Physical Review Letters, 2017
Recommended citation: Ganti, Raman, Yawei Liu, and Daan Frenkel. "Molecular simulation of thermo-osmotic slip." Physical review letters 119.3 (2017): 038002. http://rganti.github.io/files/Molecular_Simulation_PhysRevLett.pdf
Thermo-osmotic slip—the flow induced by a thermal gradient along a surface—is a well-known phenomenon, but curiously there is a lack of robust molecular-simulation techniques to predict its magnitude. Here, we compare three different molecular-simulation techniques to compute the thermo-osmotic slip at a simple solid-fluid interface. Although we do not expect the different approaches to be in perfect agreement, we find that the differences are barely significant for a range of different physical conditions, suggesting that practical molecular simulations of thermo-osmotic slip are feasible.
Recommended citation: Ganti, Raman, Yawei Liu, and Daan Frenkel. “Molecular simulation of thermo-osmotic slip.” Physical review letters 119.3 (2017): 038002.