9-3 Lennard-Jones potential

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Functional form

The 9-3 Lennard-Jones potential is related to the standard Lennard-Jones potential.

It takes the form:

Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle V(r) = \frac{ 3 \sqrt{3}}{ 2} \epsilon \left[ \left( \frac{\sigma}{r} \right)^9 - \left( \frac{ \sigma }{r} \right)^3 \right]. }

The minimum value of Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle V(r) } is obtained at Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle r = r_{min} } , with

• $V\left(r_{min}\right)=-\epsilon$,

• Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \frac{ r_{min} }{\sigma} = 3^{1/6} }

Applications

It is commonly used to model the interaction between the particles of a fluid with a flat structureless solid wall.

Interaction between a solid and a fluid molecule

Let us consider the space divided in two regions:

• Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle x < 0 } : this region is occupied by a diffuse solid with density Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \rho_s } composed of Lennard-Jones atoms

with paremeters Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \sigma_s } and Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \epsilon_a }

Our aim is to compute the total interaction between this solid and a molecule located at a position Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle x > 0 } .

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