BULLETIN of the

POLISH ACADEMY of SCIENCES

TECHNICAL SCIENCES

BULLETIN of the POLISH ACADEMY of SCIENCES: TECHNICAL SCIENCES
Volume 57, Issue 1, March 2009

Disasters, micro and nanomechanics

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Molecular dynamics computer simulation of water flows in nanochannels

A. KUCABA-PIETAL, Z. WALENTA, and Z. PERADZYNSKI
The work presents the results of the simulations of water flows through narrow channels (Poiseuille flows) performed using the molecular dynamics method, for two different channel widths (equal to 5 and 10 diameters of the water molecule) and for two different materials of the channel walls (copper and quartz). In the simulations, physical properties of the materials and their electrostatic interactions were considered. The obtained results are compared with the analytical solutions for a micropolar fluid flow taking account of the experimentally obtained rheological constants of water.
Key words:

nanoflows, micropolar fluid, molecular dynamics simulation, nanochannels.


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12 March 2009