| Molecular Dynamics Study of Thermal Properties of Intermetallic Alloys (2008) | |||||||||||||||
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| Molecular dynamics simulations of bulk copper, gold pure metals and their ordered intermetallics alloys of Cu3Au(L12) andCuAu3(L12) havebeencarriedoutbetweenabove0Kandbelowthetheir melting points of the materials for predicting their temperature-dependent thermophysical properties. The effects of temperature and concentration on the physical properties such as enthalpy, volume, heat capacity, thermal expansion and density of CuxAu1−x are studied. Especially, temperature-dependent polynomial functions of enthalpy, volume and density are obtained. Sutton-Chen (SC) and Quantum Sutton-Chen (Q-SC) many-body potentials are used in the constant enthalpy-constant pressure ensemble (HPN) and constant pressure-constant temperature ensemble (TPN). Three important properties such as the coefficient of thermal volume expansion, heat capcity and density are correctly found to increase with temperature. Q-SC potential parameter results are usually closer to experimental values than the ones predicted from SC potential parameters. | |||||||||||||||
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