Molecular Simulation Studies on Thermophysical Properties
Molecular Simulation Studies on Thermophysical Properties
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热物理性质的分子模拟研究
DOI:
10.1007/978-981-10-3545-6
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发表时间:
2017
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通讯作者:
G. Raabe
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作者:
G. Raabe
This volume is based on my habilitation thesis (Habilitationsschrift) that was accepted from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Technische Universität Braunschweig for granting the venia legendi for the field of teaching “Molecular Thermodynamics”.While my early research activities involved traditional experimental studies on thermophysical properties in the lab, I had the chance to perform first “computational experiments” during a research visit in the group of Richard Sadus. Since then I have focused my research on molecular simulations due to my fascination for its ability to allow for predictive studies and to gain insights into the systems on a molecular level that helps to interpret their properties. Shortly after I also started to teach a master course on molecular simulation. This course not only covers the fundamentals of molecular simulation, but also includes an introduction to the statistical mechanics that provide its theoretical framework, and details on force field models and their parametrization. This has motivated me to compose a comprehensive textbook that covers all these topics. Molecular simulations have a wide range of application, but my research has always focused on studies on thermophysical properties. This is therefore also the scope of this volume, and it was important for me to devote a special chapter on the analysis of simulation outputs to derive different thermophysical properties. A main field of my research for the last years has been the molecular modeling and simulation for new HFO workings fluids. These simulation studies are mainly described at the end of this textbook as illustrative example to demonstrate the ability of molecular simulations to provide predictions on the thermophysical properties of pure components and mixtures for which only limited experimental data are available.