Calculation of the vapour-liquid coexistence curve for a fluctuating point charge water model |
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Authors: | ERIC M YEZDIMER PETER T CUMMINGS |
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Institution: | 1. The Department of Chemistry ,;2. Chemical Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory , Oak Ridge, TN, 37831-6268, USA;3. the Department of Chemical Engineering , University of Tennessee Knoxville , TN, 37996-2200, USA |
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Abstract: | Recent studies of the phase behaviour of several polarizable water models have shown that typically the inclusion of polarizability into current non-polarizable, rigid models of water actually decreases the accuracy of their predictions of the liquid-vapour coexistence curve. Most of the polarizable models examined so far have been shown to characteristically over-predict the saturation pressure and correspondingly under-predict the critical temperature. It is the purpose of this Research Note to report the results of a Gibbs—Duhem integration of the liquid—vapour coexistence curve for the TIP4P-FQ water model and to discuss the possible reasons behind the lack of improvement of polarizable water models over their non-polarizable counterparts. |
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