Thermal Conductivity Calculations in the MULTICOMP Package
摘要
MULTICOMP is a specialized package developed for multiscale modeling of polymer nanomaterials, including nanocomposites. One of the properties most frequently requested in R&D research that can be estimated with MULTICOMP is the thermal conductivity of organic/inorganic materials. This paper presents results obtained using equilibrium and nonequilibrium methods (recently implemented in MULTICOMP) for calculating the thermal conductivity based on molecular dynamics simulations. We consider issues related to thermal equilibrium and present a detailed analysis of system size effects. Finally, we show that the results obtained by equilibrium and nonequilibrium methods for the considered crystalline silicon model system are in reasonable agreement with the experimental data. The performance of the new modules on different computer platforms is also discussed.