title: Collective dynamics near a phase transition in confined fluids.
abstract: We performed molecular dynamics simulations in the microcanonical ensemble (MEMD) for a "simple" fluid confined between two solid substrates. From the calculation of the intermediate scattering function F(k( parallel ),t) and through the memory function formalism, we extract material ( i.e. transport and thermodynamics) coefficients in the vicinity of the liquid-gas phase transition. Our results show that approaching the limit of stability ( i.e. the spinodal), the dynamics of the system changes markedly.
authors.affiliation: Stranski-Laboratorium für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie, Sekr. TC 7 Fakultät für Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften - Technische Universität Berlin Strasse des 17. Juni 124, 10623 Berlin, Germany, martin.schoen@fluids.tu-berlin.de
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Schoen
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Porcheron