Abstract
There is a tendency to cool mechanical and electrical components by microchannels. When the channel size decreases, the continuum approach starts to fail and particle based methods should be used. In this paper, a dense gas in micro and nano-channels is modelled by molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulations. It is shown that in the limit situation both methods yield the same solution. Molecular dynamics is an accurate but computational expensive method. The Monte Carlo method is more efficient, but is less accurate near the boundaries. Therefore a new coupling algorithm for molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo is introduced in which the advantages of both methods are used.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Computational Science - ICCS 2004 (Proceedings 4th International Conference, Kraków, Poland, June 6-9, 2004), Part IV |
Editors | M. Bubak, xx et al. |
Place of Publication | Berlin |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 661-666 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-3-540-22129-6 |
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Publication status | Published - 2004 |
Event | 4th International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS 2004) - AGH University of Science and Technology, Kraków, Poland Duration: 6 Jun 2004 → 9 Jun 2004 Conference number: 4 http://www.iccs-meeting.org/iccs2004/ |
Publication series
Name | Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
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Volume | 3039 |
ISSN (Print) | 0302-9743 |
Conference
Conference | 4th International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS 2004) |
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Abbreviated title | ICCS 2004 |
Country/Territory | Poland |
City | Kraków |
Period | 6/06/04 → 9/06/04 |
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