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:

$V(r)={\frac {3{\sqrt {3}}}{2}}\epsilon \left[\left({\frac {\sigma }{r}}\right)^{9}-\left({\frac {\sigma }{r}}\right)^{3}\right].$

The minimum value of $V(r)$ is obtained at $r=r_{min}$, with

• $V\left(r_{min}\right)=-\epsilon$,

• ${\frac {r_{min}}{\sigma }}=3^{1/6}$

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:

• $x<0$: this region is occupied by a diffuse solid with density $\rho _{s}$ composed of Lennard-Jones atoms

with paremeters $\sigma _{s}$ and $\epsilon _{a}$

Our aim is to compute the total interaction between this solid and a molecule located at a position $x>0$.

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