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Viscoelastic response of Yukawa liquids
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Viscoelastic response of Yukawa liquids

Z Donkó, J Goree and P Hartmann
Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics, Vol.81(5 Pt 2), pp.056404-056404
05/2010
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.81.056404
PMID: 20866341

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Abstract

The viscoelastic properties of strongly coupled Yukawa liquids are characterized by computing the complex shear viscosity η(ω) . This is done using three methods of molecular-dynamics simulation: equilibrium, nonequilibrium, and Langevin dynamics, all with a mutually repulsive Yukawa interparticle potential. A change from viscous to elastic response is observed with increasing frequency, as well as a decrease of the magnitude of the viscosity with increasing frequency. The Langevin simulation reveals that the dependence of the complex viscosity on the friction has a different character for hot and cool liquids. At ω=0 , we find that as friction increases, the viscosity diminishes at high temperature but increases at low temperature. In addition to finding its frequency dependence, we also derive the wave-number (length-scale) dependence of the shear viscosity.

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