Simulation of phase equilibria and interfacial properties of binary mixtures on the liquid-vapour interface using lattice sums.

Molecular dynamics simulations of Lennard-Jones binary mixtures were performed to obtain phase equilibria and thermodynamic properties for the liquid-vapour interface. The dispersion interactions were handled using the lattice sum method where the full interaction is obtained and there is no requirement for any long range correction to the properties. The application of the method using the Lorentz-Berthelot combining rule for unlike interactions is discussed. The coexisting densities, adsorption of molecules at the interface and surface tension are the main results of this work. Coexisting properties were compared with Gibbs ensemble Monte Carlo results and with those of the grand canonical Monte Carlo method combined with the histogram reweighting technique, and good agreement was found. The lattice sum method results were compared with those of the spherically truncated and shifted potential to analyse the truncation effect. The adsorption of molecules at the interface and surface tension increase with interaction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]