Non-equilibrium molecular dynamics calculation of thermal conductivity of flexible molecules: butane

Thermal Conductivity of Supercooled Water: An Equilibrium Molecular Dynamics Exploration

The thermal conductivity of both supercooled and ambient-temperature water at atmospheric pressure has been computed over the 140-270 K temperature range for three popular water models via equilibrium molecular dynamics in the Green-Kubo setting. No strong temperature dependence of thermal conductivity was observed. The underlying phonon modes contributing to thermal conduction processes have been examined in the present work, and it has been established that (translational) acoustic modes dominate in supercooled water.

Generalization of the homogeneous nonequilibrium molecular dynamics method for calculating thermal conductivity to multibody potentials

This work provides a generalization of Evans' homogeneous nonequilibrium method for estimating thermal conductivity to molecular systems that are described by general multibody potentials. A perturbed form of the usual Nose-Hoover equations of motion is formally constructed and is shown to satisfy the requirements of Evans' original method. These include adiabatic incompressibility of phase space, equivalence of the dissipative and heat fluxes, and momentum preservation.

Thermal conductivity of ethanol

We present a factorization of the Ewald sum permitting efficient computation of the reciprocal space part of the molecular representation for the heat flux vector. We use the derived expression to evaluate thermal conductivity of a model of ethanol at several near-ambient state points.