MONTE-CARLO SIMULATIONS OF THE LAPLACE PRESSURE-DEPENDENCE ON THE CURVATURE OF THE CONVEX MENISCUS IN THIN UNWETTED CAPILLARIES

Authors
BRODSKAYA EN PIOTROVSKAYA EM
Citation
En. Brodskaya et Em. Piotrovskaya, MONTE-CARLO SIMULATIONS OF THE LAPLACE PRESSURE-DEPENDENCE ON THE CURVATURE OF THE CONVEX MENISCUS IN THIN UNWETTED CAPILLARIES, Langmuir, 10(6), 1994, pp. 1837-1840
Citations number
24
Categorie Soggetti
Chemistry Physical
Journal title
Langmuir → ACNP
ISSN journal
07437463
Volume
10
Issue
6
Year of publication
1994
Pages
1837 - 1840
Database
ISI
SICI code
0743-7463(1994)10:6<1837:MSOTLP>2.0.ZU;2-C
Abstract
The conditions of the two-phase liquid-vapor equilibrium of a Lennard- Jones fluid in thin unwetted slitlike and cylindrical capillaries of d ifferent widths were investigated at the temperature 90 K by the grand canonical Monte Carlo method. One of the main aims of this work was t he estimation of the surface tension gamma for the curved meniscus (cy lindrical and spherical). It is shown that the form of the dividing su rface does not influence the dependence of gamma for a simple liquid o n the curvature of this surface.