Water molecule bond length

Classical Mechanics

Newton Equations

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 F = ma} where Failed to parse (Conversion error. Server ("https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_") reported: "Cannot get mml. Server problem."): {\displaystyle F=-\nabla V} . The system is 1D, thus gradient will be differential, and Failed to parse (Conversion error. Server ("https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_") reported: "Cannot get mml. Server problem."): {\displaystyle F=-{\frac {dV}{dx}}} .

The mass $m$ should be the reduced mass of the oxygen--hydrogen system, but we use mass $m=1$ here.

Potential Function

Lennard--Jones potential with dimensionless parameters for TIPS model:

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(x) = 4 \left[ \left( \frac1x\right)^{12} - \left( \frac1 x\right)^6 \right] }

where the distance 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} is given in Ångstroms.

Integration

The finite differences (Euler method) are

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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 a(t) = -\frac{\frac{d}{dx}(V(x(t)))}{m} }

Velocity Verlet Algorithm

A very good and easy to implement integration method is velocity Verlet:

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where 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 a(t) = a(x(t)) = - \frac1m \frac{d}{dx}V(x(t))} is given at Section . . .

Temperature/ Initial distribution

The initial velocity of the hydrogen atom is chosen randomly from the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution at given temperature 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 T}

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Issues

1D statement

References

D.T.W. Lin and C.-K. Chen: A molecular dynamics simulation of TIP4P and Lennard-Jones water in nanochannel, acta Mechanica 173, 181.194 (2004).