Evaluations of Molecular Dynamics Methods for Thermodiffusion in Binary Mixtures

The objective of this paper is to investigate the behavior of two well-known boundary-driven molecular dynamics (MD) approaches, namely, reverse nonequilibrium molecular dynamics (RNEMD) and heat exchange algorithm (HEX), as well as introducing a modified HEX model (MHEX) that is more accurate and computationally efficient to simulate the mass and heat transfer mechanism. For this investigation, the following binary mixtures were considered: …