This work is related to the definition of a reduced thermal diffusion coefficient thanks to numerical microscale molecular dynamics simulations. This cross transport process, also called Soret effect, couples mass flux and thermal gradient and is still largely misunderstood. For this study, we have applied a boundary driven non equilibrium molecular dynamics algorithm on Lennard-Jones spheres m...

We study the statistical properties of the potential energy landscape of a system of particles interacting via a very short-range square-well potential (of depth -u0) as a function of the range of attraction Delta to provide thermodynamic insights of the Noro and Frenkel [M. G. Noro and D. Frenkel, J. Chem. Phys. 113, 2941 (2000)] scaling. We exactly evaluate the basin free energy and show that...

The variability of winter precipitation over the northeastern United States and the corresponding teleconnections with five dominant large-scale modes of climate variability (Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, AMO; North Atlantic Oscillation, NAO; Pacific-North American pattern, PNA; Pacific Decadal Oscillation, PDO; and El Niño–Southern Oscillation, ENSO) were systemically analyzed in this stu...

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The surface tension of heavy n-alkanes is a poorly studied subject. Few data exist and the predictive methods used for their estimation are rather complex or show considerable errors for the higher members of the series. In this work, the corresponding states theory is used to predict the surface tension of the series of the n-alkanes. Two approaches have been followed: the first is a second-or...

An accurate evaluation of the thennophysical properties of refiigerants over wide ranges of pressure and temperature is necessary to predict the performance of possible alternatives to fully halogenated chlorofluorocarbons in refrigeration and heat pumping applications. The transport properties have, in fact, a very important part in the refrigeration plant heat exchangers design. An Extended C...