Nonequilibrium thermodynamics of interfaces using classical density functional theory

Nonequilibrium thermodynamics of interfaces using classical density functional theory.

A vapor-liquid interface introduces resistivities for mass and heat transfer. These resistivities have recently been determined from molecular simulations, as well as theoretically using the van der Waals square gradient model. This model, however, does not allow for direct quantitative comparison to experiment or results from molecular simulations. The classical density functional theory is us...

A classical density-functional theory for describing water interfaces.

We develop a classical density functional for water which combines the White Bear fundamental-measure theory (FMT) functional for the hard sphere fluid with attractive interactions based on the statistical associating fluid theory variable range (SAFT-VR). This functional reproduces the properties of water at both long and short length scales over a wide range of temperatures and is computation...

Classical Density Functional Theory of Ionic Liquids

Bridging scales from molecular simulations to classical thermodynamics: density functional theory of capillary condensation in nanopores

With the example of the capillary condensation of Lennard-Jones fluid in nanopores ranging from 1 to 10 nm, we show that the non-local density functional theory (NLDFT) with properly chosen parameters of intermolecular interactions bridges the scale gap from molecular simulations to macroscopic thermodynamics. On the one hand, NLDFT correctly approximates the results of Monte Carlo simulations ...

Nonequilibrium Green Functions in Time-dependent Current-density-functional Theory∗

We give an overview of the underlying concepts of time-dependent current-densityfunctional theory (TDCDFT). We show how the basic equations of TDCDFT can be elegantly derived using the time contour method of nonequilibrium Green function theory. We further demonstrate how the formalism can be used to derive explicit equations for the exchange-correlation vector potentials and integral kernels f...