ANALYSIS ON PORO COMPLEX FLUID DYNAMICS

Abstract

A growing amount of experimental and theoretical research reveals the key importance of
supercooled and glassy states in comprehending liquid water, and provides a foundation for a
coherent interpretation of its properties in the future. This talk will focus on a new study that
uses molecular dynamics simulations to investigate the spatially heterogeneous dynamics of
the SPC/E model of water. Our work shows how the average mass n* of mobile particle
clusters can be related to the diffusion constant and the configurational entropy, in particular:
N* can be understood as the mass of "cooperatively rearranging areas" that constitute the
basis of Adam-Gibbs' theory of the dynamics of supercooled liquids, n*.