化工学报 ›› 2017, Vol. 68 ›› Issue (5): 1786-1793.DOI: 10.11949/j.issn.0438-1157.20161527

• 流体力学与传递现象 • 上一篇    下一篇

纳米狭缝中水流动非平衡分子动力学模拟

南怡伶, 孔宪, 李继鹏, 卢滇楠   

  1. 清华大学化学工程系, 化学工程联合国家重点实验室, 北京 100084
  • 收稿日期:2016-10-31 修回日期:2017-01-17 出版日期:2017-05-05 发布日期:2017-05-05
  • 通讯作者: 卢滇楠
  • 基金资助:

    国家自然科学基金项目(21476125)。

Non-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulation of water flow inside nano-slit

NAN Yiling, KONG Xian, LI Jipeng, LU Diannan   

  1. State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
  • Received:2016-10-31 Revised:2017-01-17 Online:2017-05-05 Published:2017-05-05
  • Supported by:

    supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21476125).

摘要:

采用非平衡分子动力学模拟(non-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulation)方法研究了不同间距纳米狭缝之间水的流动行为。研究了纳米狭缝间距、壁面性质和外部压力对水流动速度径向分布、有效黏度、壁面速度和滑移长度的影响,讨论了Navier-Stoke(N-S)方程的适用性。研究结果表明,N-S方程仅适用于3 nm以上的孔道;狭缝尺寸的增加和施加压力的增加均会使得管内流速增加,而造成表观黏度降低以及滑移长度增加。壁面亲水性的增加仅使得滑移长度降低,表观黏度并没有发生较大变化。

关键词: 纳米狭缝, 分子动力学模拟, 流动, 有效黏度, 滑移长度, 非平衡分子动力学, 表面

Abstract:

Flow behavior of water in nano confinement is essential to various application fields, including water purification, desalination, energy conversion, DNA sequencing, etc. It has been recognized that traditional hydrodynamics theory like Navier-Stokes (N-S) is no longer applicable in systems with lower dimension. To assess the limits of N-S equation, the molecular dynamics simulation is used to study water flow behavior in nano-slit. The nano-slit is formed by two parallel graphene sheets separated by a certain distance. Flow rate profiles of water in nano-slit with different distance between two graphene sheets show that when the distance between two graphene sheets is less than 3 nm, N-S equation cannot describe the flow behavior correctly. This means, N-S equation is applicable for channels with size larger than 3 nm, which is about ten times the diameter of water molecule. For pores in which N-S equation is applicable, effective viscosity and slip length were obtained by fitting the flow rate profiles with N-S equation. The influences of pore size, driving force, and wall hydrophobicity on the flow behavior were also investigated with emphasis on the effective viscosity and slip length. With the increases of slit pore size or driving force, water average velocity increases, accompanied by an increase in effective viscosity and a decrease in slip length. The increase of the wall hydrophilicity of the nano-slit results in a decrease of slip length while imposes no obvious effect on the effective viscosity.

Key words: nano-slit, molecular dynamics simulation, flow, effective viscosity, slip length, non-equilibrium molecular dynamics, surface

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