title: Shear viscosity of the Lennard-Jones chain fluid in its gaseous, supercritical, and liquid states.
abstract: Extensive nonequilibrium molecular dynamics (NEMD) simulations have been carried out in order to estimate the Newtonian shear viscosity of a fluid composed of short chains (up to 16 segments) of jointed spheres [Lennard-Jones chain (LJC)] over a large range of thermodynamic conditions. Using the NEMD results, it is shown that the zero-density contribution decreases with the chain length for a given temperature and is simply proportional to N-1/2 , where N is the number of spheres composing the chain. In addition, it has been noticed that the residual shear viscosity is proportional to the chain length. Then, using these results, a relation is proposed to correlate the shear viscosity of the LJC fluid using the LJ fluid (the monomer) as a reference. It is shown that this correlation is able to provide an excellent estimation of the LJC fluid viscosity compared to NEMD results for N<or=16 over the domain 0<or=rho <or=1.1 and 0.7<or=T <or=6 . Finally, it is shown that the LJC model is unambiguously more efficient than a simple LJ approximation when applied to estimate the shear viscosity of n -butane, if only the sphere or segment diameter is used as an adjustable parameter in both models.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire des Fluides Complexes (UMR-5150 with CNRS and TOTAL), Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, BP 1155, F-64013 PAU Cedex, France. guillaume.galliero@univ-pau.fr
authors.forename: Guillaume
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Galliero
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Boned