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The Ninth Industrial Fluid Properties Simulation Challenge

May 1, 2018
Author(s)
Jonathan D. Moore, Raymond D. Mountain, Richard B. Ross, Vincent K. Shen, Daniel Siderius, Kenneth D. Smith
The Ninth Industrial Fluid Properties Simulation Challenge aimed to test the ability of molecular modeling approaches to predict water/oil interfacial tension (IFT) at conditions of high temperature and pressure. In particular, the challenge featured water

Molecular Simulation of Capillary Phase Transitions in Flexible Porous Materials

March 27, 2018
Author(s)
Vincent K. Shen, Daniel W. Siderius, Nathan Mahynski
We used at-histogram sampling Monte Carlo to study capillary phase transitions in deformable adsorbent materials. Specifically, we considered a pure adsorbate fluid below its bulk critical temperature within a slit pore of variable pore width. The

FEASST: Free Energy and Advanced Sampling Simulation Toolkit

March 1, 2018
Author(s)
Harold W. Hatch, Nathan Mahynski, Vincent K. Shen
The Free Energy and Advanced Sampling Simulation Toolkit (FEASST) is a free, open-source, modular program to conduct molecular and particle-based simulations with Metropolis, Wang-Landau and Transition-Matrix Monte Carlo methods. FEASST is implemented in C

Multivariable Extrapolation of Grand Canonical Free Energy Landscapes

December 21, 2017
Author(s)
Nathan Mahynski, Jeffrey R. Errington, Vincent K. Shen
We derive an approach for extrapolating the free energy landscape of multicomponent systems in the grand canonical ensemble, obtained from flat- histogram Monte Carlo simulations, from one set of temperature and chemical potentials to another. This is

Quasi-Two-dimensional Phase Transition of Methane Adsorbed in Cylindrical Silica Mesopores

November 29, 2017
Author(s)
Daniel W. Siderius, William P. Krekelberg, Wei-Shan NMN Chiang, Vincent K. Shen, Yun Liu
Using Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics simulations, we examine the adsorption of methane in cylindrical silica mesopores in an effort to understand a possible phase transition of adsorbed methane in MCM-41 and SBA-15 silica that was previously identified

Temperature extrapolation of multicomponent grand canonical free energy landscapes

August 7, 2017
Author(s)
Nathan Mahynski, Jeffrey R. Errington, Vincent K. Shen
We derive a method for extrapolating the grand canonical free energy landscape of a multicomponent fluid system from one temperature to another. Previously, we introduced this statistical mechanical framework for the case where kinetic energy contributions

Assembly of Multi-flavored Two-Dimensional Colloidal Crystals

July 12, 2017
Author(s)
Nathan Mahynski, Hasan Zerze, Harold W. Hatch, Vincent K. Shen, Jeetain Mittal
We systematically investigate the assembly of binary multi-flavored colloidal mixtures in two dimensions. In these mixtures all pairwise interactions between species may be tuned independently. This introduces an additional degree of freedom over more

Connection between thermodynamics and dynamics of simple fluids in pores: impact of fluid-fluid interaction range and fluid-solid interaction strength

July 5, 2017
Author(s)
William P. Krekelberg, Daniel W. Siderius, Vincent K. Shen, Thomas M. Truskett, Jeffrey R. Errington
Using molecular simulations, we investigate how the range of fluid-fluid (adsorbate-adsorbate) interactions and the strength of fluid-solid (adsorbate-adsorbent) interactions impact the strong connection between distinct adsorptive regimes and distinct

Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Trimer Self-Assembly Under Shear

March 6, 2017
Author(s)
Raymond D. Mountain, Harold Hatch, Vincent K. Shen
The self-assembly of patchy trimer particles with one attractive bead and two repulsive beads is investigated with nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulations in the presence of a velocity gradient, as would be produced by the application of a shear

Predicting low-temperature free energy landscapes with flat-histogram Monte Carlo methods

February 21, 2017
Author(s)
Nathan Mahynski, Marco A. Blanco Medina, Jeffrey R. Errington, Vincent K. Shen
We present a method of predicting the free energy landscape of fluids at low temperatures from flat-histogram grand canonical Monte Carlo simulations performed at higher ones. We illustrate our approach for both pure and multicomponent systems using two

Tuning flexibility to control selectivity in soft porous crystals

January 31, 2017
Author(s)
Nathan Mahynski, Vincent K. Shen
We use flat-histogram Monte Carlo simulations to study how changing the flexibility of soft porous crystals (SPCs) affects their selective adsorption of a binary, size-asymmetric supercritical fluid. Specifically, we consider mesoporous SPCs which have

Modulus--Pressure Equation for Confined Fluids

October 28, 2016
Author(s)
Daniel W. Siderius, Gennady Y. Gor, Vincent K. Shen, Noam Bernstein
Ultrasonic experiments allow one to measure the elastic modulus of bulk solid or fluid samples. Recently such experiments have been carried out on fluid-saturated nanoporous glass to probe the modulus of a confined fluid. In our previous work (J. Chem

Depletion-Driven Crystallization of Cubic Colloids Sedimented on a Surface

May 19, 2016
Author(s)
Harold W. Hatch, William P. Krekelberg, Steven D Hudson, Vincent K. Shen
Cubic colloids, sedimented on a surface and immersed in a solution of depletant molecules, were modeled with a family of shapes which smoothly varies from squares to circles. Using Wang-Landau simulations with expanded ensembles, we observe the formation

Self-Assembly of Trimer Colloids: Effect of shape and interaction range

April 5, 2016
Author(s)
Harold W. Hatch, Seung Y. Yang, Jeetain Mittal, Vincent K. Shen
Trimers with one attractive bead and two repulsive beads, similar to recently synthesized trimer patchy colloids, were simulated with flat-histogram Monte Carlo methods to obtain the stable self-assembled structures for different shapes and interaction

Adsorption, X-ray Diffraction, Photoelectron, and Atomic Emission Spectroscopy Benchmark Studies for the Eighth Industrial Fluid Properties Simulation Challenge

January 31, 2016
Author(s)
Daniel Siderius, Vincent K. Shen, Raymond D. Mountain, Richard B. Ross, David B. Aeschliman, Riaz Ahmad, John K. Brennan, Myles L. Brostrom, Kevin A. Frankel, Jonathan D. Moore, Joshua D. Moore, Derrick M. Poirier, Matthias Thommes, Nathan E. Schultz, Kenneth D. Smith
The primary goal of the eighth industrial fluid properties simulation challenge was to test the ability of molecular simulation methods to predict the adsorption of organic adsorbates in activated carbon materials. The challenge focused, in particular, on

The Eighth Industrial Fluid Properties Simulation Challenge

January 31, 2016
Author(s)
Daniel Siderius, Vincent K. Shen, Raymond D. Mountain, Nathan E. Schultz, Riaz Ahmad, John K. Brennan, Kevin A. Frankel, Jonathan D. Moore, Richard B. Ross, Matthias Thommes, Kenneth D. Smith
The goal of the eighth industrial fluid properties simulation challenge was to test the ability of molecular simulation methods to predict the adsorption of organic adsorbates in activated carbon materials. In particular, the eighth challenge focused on

Relation Between Pore Size and the Compressibility of a Confi ned Fluid

November 18, 2015
Author(s)
Daniel W. Siderius, Vincent K. Shen, William P. Krekelberg, Gennady Y. Gor, Christopher J. Rasmussen, Noam Bernstein
When a fluid is conned to a nanopore, its thermodynamic properties differ from the properties of a bulk fluid. Measuring certain properties of con fined fluid can provide information about the pore sizes. Here we report a simple relation between the pore

Computational Study of Trimer Self-Assembly and Fluid Phase Behavior

April 24, 2015
Author(s)
Harold W. Hatch, Vincent K. Shen, Jeetain Mittal
The fluid phase diagram of trimer particles composed of one central attractive bead and two repulsive beads was determined as a function of simple geometric parameters using flat-histogram Monte Carlo methods. A variety of self-assembled structures were