A simple fluid, described by pointlike particles interacting via the Lennard-Jones potential, is considered under confinement in a slit geometry between two walls at distance L_{z} apart for densities inside the vapor-liquid coexistence curve. Equilibrium then requires the coexistence of a liquid "bridge" between the two walls, and vapor in the remaining pore volume. We study this equilibrium f...

We present a dynamic van der Waals theory starting with entropy and energy functional with gradient contributions. The resultant hydrodynamic equations contain the stress arising from the density gradient. It provides a general scheme of two-phase hydrodynamics involving the gas-liquid transition in nonuniform temperature. Some complex hydrodynamic processes with evaporation and condensation ar...

We discuss the growth process of a crystalline phase out of a metastable over-compressed liquid that is brought into contact with a crystalline substrate. The process is modeled by means of molecular dynamics. The particles interact via the Lennard-Jones potential and their motion is locally thermalized by Langevin dynamics. We characterize the relaxation process of the solid-liquid interface, ...

To describe the transport properties of hot electrons in high electric fields, a theory for the scattering of excess electrons in atomic liquids with high atomic polarizability is proposed. The theory is based on the variable phase method and it does not require information about the short-range part of the electron-atom potential. The scattering of electrons by density fluctuations in a liquid...

Several parameter sets have been presented in the literature for a three-site united-atom model for methanol. We compare the Gibbs ensemble Monte Carlo simulation results for the prediction of vapor-liquid equilibrium for the various sets. Furthermore, we present a new parameter set, which predicts phase coexistence properties of methanol with higher accuracy over a wide range of temperatures a...

Results of a systematic investigation of the vapour-liquid equilibria (VLE) of 30 individual two-centre Lennard-Jones plus pointquadrupole model fluids (2CLJQ) are reported over a range of reduced quadrupolar momentum 0 ≤ Q ≤ 4 and of reduced elongation 0 ≤ L ≤ 0.8. Temperatures investigated are from about 55 % to about 95 % of the critical temperature of each fluid. Uniformly the NpT+Test Part...

In 1984-85 metham-sodium and the combination of 1,3-dichloropropene plus aldicarb decreased (P = 0.05) soil population densities of Pratylenchus penetrans at planting, midseason, and at harvest relative to the untreated control. These treatments increased (P = 0.05) marketable potato tuber yield from 27% to 46% in 1984 and from 23% to 37% in 1985, as compared with the control. In 1984 oxamyl (1...

Densities of pure 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium methylsulfate, [C4mim][MeSO4], and its mixtures with methanol have been measured. Measurements were made with an accuracy of ±0.2 kg·m-3, using a vibrating-tube densimeter, over the temperature and pressure ranges (283.15-333.15) K and (0.1-35) MPa, respectively. The experimental densities for the pure ionic liquid and alcohol have been correlated b...

We discuss the problem of rototranslational diffusion of a rigid biaxial molecule dissolved in a uniaxial smectic liquid crystal phase. We examine distorted rod and disk like molecules and show how biaxiality and rototranslational coupling can produce significant effects on some of the correlation functions and spectral densities most useful in analyzing experimental observables.