@inbook{651907cede9e459fa77ae0a0df22f6be,
title = "A novel definition of the local and instantaneous liquid-vapor interface",
abstract = "In this paper, we present a new definition of liquid-vapor interface at the molecular level which can capture the local and instantaneous structure of the interface. The new definition is not a thermodynamic definition of the interface, such as the equimolar surface, but is based on the instantaneous particle density distribution of molecules. Applying the new definition of the interface to the MD result of the liquid-vapor interface, we found that our definition of the interface was able to capture the microscopic fluctuation caused by molecular motion. Furthermore, we confirmed that on the longtime average our definition of the interface shows good agreement with the equimolar surface.",
keywords = "Equimolar surface, Instantaneous interface, Level set method, Molecular dynamics",
author = "Gota Kikugawa and Shu Takagi and Yoichiro Matsumoto",
year = "2006",
doi = "10.1007/1-4020-4977-3_14",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781402049767",
series = "Fluid Mechanics and its Applications",
publisher = "Kluwer Academic Publishers",
pages = "131--140",
booktitle = "IUTAM Symposium on Computational Approaches to Multiphase Flow",
address = "Netherlands",
}