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Prediction of Adsorption Isotherms and Diffusivity on Activated Carbon for Persistent Organic Pollutant(2,3,7,8-TCDD) (활성탄 위에서 잔류성 유기 오염물질(2,3,7,8-TCDD)의 등온 흡착식 및 확산계수 예측)

  • Lim, Young-Il;Son, Hae-Jeong;Lee, Ohsung;Nam, Kyong-Soo;Yoo, Kyoung-Seun
    • Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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    • v.47 no.6
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    • pp.747-754
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    • 2009
  • In this study, adsorption isotherms of o-DCB(ortho-dichlorobenzene) on an activated carbon heated at $1000^{\circ}C$ for 24 hours were obtained by experiment and were predicted by using molecular simulation. The initial molecular structure of the activated carbon was designed on the basis of its molecular formula and functional groups ratio measured experimentally. Then, the molecular structure was optimized using the COMPASS(condensed-phase optimized molecular potentials for atomistic simulation studies) force field. The particle porosity, specific surface area, and particle density obtained from the optimized molecular structure of activated carbon were compared with those experimental data. The errors between experimental data and simulation results of the particle porosity, specific surface area, and particle density were shown as 7.6, 3.8, and 2.8%, respectively. Adsorption isotherms constants of o-DCB are calculated by the GCMC(grand canonical Monte Carlo) method in the optimized molecular structure of activated carbon. The simulation result of the adsorption isotherms showed an error of under 3%, compared to that of experimental data. Adsorption isotherms, adsorption heat and pore diffusivity of 2,3,7,8-TCDD(tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin) was finally obtained in the same molecular structure of the activated carbon as used for o-DCB. Thus, adsorption characteristics of persistent organic pollutants on activated carbon, which are not easy to experimentally evaluate, are predicted by the molecular simulation.

Molecular dynamics study of the elastic moduli of FCC nanofilm (분자동역학을 이용한 FCC 나노박막의 탄성계수 연구)

  • Kim, Won-Bae;Cho, Maeng-Hyo
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2008.11a
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    • pp.1928-1933
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    • 2008
  • In this paper, elastic properties such as Young's modulus and Poisson's ratio of various transition metal nanofilms are calculated for the {100} and {110} surfaces by using molecular dynamics simulation. A new method using $3^{rd}$ order elastic constants and least square method is presented for the calculation of elastic constants. We also introduce analytical method of calculating elastic constants for EAM potential and it's results as the reference value to be compared with the simulation results.

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Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Nano-Deformation Behavior of the Grain-Size Controlled Rheology Material (분자동력학을 이용한 결정립 제어 레오로지 소재의 나노 변형거동 전산모사)

  • Kim J. W.;Youn S. W.;Kang C. G.
    • Transactions of Materials Processing
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    • v.14 no.4 s.76
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    • pp.319-326
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    • 2005
  • In this study, the nano-deformation behavior of semi-solid Al-Si alloy was investigated using a molecular dynamics simulation as a part of the research on the surface crack behavior in thixoformed automobile parts. The microstructure of the grain-size controlled Al-Si alloy consists of primary and eutectic regions. In eutectic regions the crack initiation begins with initial fracture of the eutectic silicon particles and inside other intermetallic phases. Nano-deformation characteristics in the eutectic and primary phase of the grain-size controlled Al-Si alloy were investigated through the molecular dynamics simulation. The primary phase was assumed to be single crystal aluminum. It was shown that the vacancy occurred at the zone where silicon molecules were.

Estimation of diffusion coefficient at the interface between liquid and vapor phases using the equilibrium molecular dynamics simulation (분자 동역학 모사를 이용한 액상과 기상 계면에서의 확산계수의 예측)

  • Kim, Kyeong-Yun;Choi, Young-Ki;Kwon, Oh-Myoung;Park, Seung-Ho;Lee, Joon-Sik
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2003.04a
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    • pp.1584-1589
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    • 2003
  • This work applies the equilibrium molecular dynamics simulation method to study a Lennard-Jones liquid thin film suspended in the vapor and calculates diffusion coefficients by Green-Kubo equation derived from Einstein relationship. As a preliminary test, the diffusion coefficients of the pure argon fluid are calculated by equilibrium molecular dynamics simulation. It is found that the diffusion coefficients increase with decreasing the density and increasing the temperature. When both argon liquid and vapor phases are present, the effects of the system temperature on the diffusion coefficient are investigated. It can be seen that the diffusion coefficient significantly increases with the temperature of the system.

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Molecular Dynamics Simulation for the Mechanical Properties of CNT/Polymer Nanocomposites (분자동역학 시뮬레이션을 이용한 나노튜브/고분자 나노복합재의 물성 해석)

  • Yang, Seung-Hwa;Cho, Maeg-Hyo
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.31 no.2 s.257
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    • pp.237-244
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    • 2007
  • In order to obtain mechanical properties of CNT/Polymer nano-composites, molecular dynamics simulation is performed. Overall system was modeled as a flexible unit cell in which carbon nanotubes are embedded into a polyethylene matrix for N $\sigma$ T ensemble simulation. COMPASS force field was chosen to describe inter and intra molecular potential and bulk effect was achieved via periodic boundary conditions. In CNT-polymer interface, only Lennard-Jones non-bond potential was considered. Using Parrinello-Rahman fluctuation method, mechanical properties of orthotropic nano-composites under various temperatures were successfully obtained. Also, we investigated thermal behavior of the short CNT reinforced nanocomposites system with predicting glass transition temperature.

The efficiency of subtraction technique in a nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulation of a simple liquid shear flow (단순액체의 층밀리기 흐름에 대한 비평형 분자동력학 계산에서 공제방법의 효과)

  • 안성청
    • Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.53-60
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    • 1997
  • Results from a nonequilibrium molecular dynamics (NEMD) simulation are presented for an argon liquid subject to a shear flow. The segmented molecular dynamics method and the subtraction technique used in NEMD program to reduce the thermal fluctuation noise in data are studied with different shear rates. The standard deviation in the shear stress reduced from 0.030 to 0.004 by the segmented molecular dynamics method for 50 repeated segments. On the other hand, the standard deviation of the data remained the same when the subtraction technique was applied, where as the results of shear stress by constant value in a random way.

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Computation of viscoelastic flow using neural networks and stochastic simulation

  • Tran-Canh, D.;Tran-Cong, T.
    • Korea-Australia Rheology Journal
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.161-174
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    • 2002
  • A new technique for numerical calculation of viscoelastic flow based on the combination of Neural Net-works (NN) and Brownian Dynamics simulation or Stochastic Simulation Technique (SST) is presented in this paper. This method uses a "universal approximator" based on neural network methodology in combination with the kinetic theory of polymeric liquid in which the stress is computed from the molecular configuration rather than from closed form constitutive equations. Thus the new method obviates not only the need for a rheological constitutive equation to describe the fluid (as in the original Calculation Of Non-Newtonian Flows: Finite Elements St Stochastic Simulation Techniques (CONNFFESSIT) idea) but also any kind of finite element-type discretisation of the domain and its boundary for numerical solution of the governing PDE's. As an illustration of the method, the time development of the planar Couette flow is studied for two molecular kinetic models with finite extensibility, namely the Finitely Extensible Nonlinear Elastic (FENE) and FENE-Peterlin (FENE-P) models.P) models.