Vol. 13, no.2, 2021
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NANOSYSTEMS
Correlation of Translational and Rotational Motion of Water Molecules in Molecular Dynamic Models
Vladimir P. Voloshin
Voevodsky Institute of Chemical Kinetics and Combustion SB RAS, http://www.kinetics.nsc.ru/
Novosibirsk 630090, Russian Federation
Е-mail: voloshin@kinetics.nsc.ru
Received 27 April, 2021, peer-reviewed 10 May, 2021, accepted 24 May, 2021
Abstract: The motion of a rigid molecule in a computer model can be described as the sum of the displacement of the center of mass of the molecule and the rotation of the molecule around an axis passing through this center. The interaction of a molecule with its environment leads to a correlation between these movements. Earlier in [1], we studied the distributions of angles between the directions of the displacement vectors and the axes of rotation of water molecules, as well as between them and the internal vectors of these molecules. This paper describes the correlation of the magnitudes of these displacements, that is, the lengths of the displacement vectors and angles of accompanying rotations. The correlation coefficients of these characteristics are calculated for intervals of different durations at different temperatures and pressures, and the character times of preservation of these correlations are determined. We believe that the times found by us represent the lifetimes of the local environments of molecules. For water molecules, a change in the local environment is accompanied by a change in the structure of the nearest section of the network of hydrogen bonds, and therefore the lifetimes of local environments are close to the lifetimes of these bonds.
Keywords: molecular dynamics simulation, water, translational displacement, angular displacement, correlation of displacement and rotation
UDC 532.74
RENSIT, 2021, 13(2):141-148. DOI: 10.17725/rensit.2021.13.141.
Full-text electronic version of this article - web site http://en.rensit.ru/vypuski/article/386/13(2)141-148e.pdf