FRQ: Stress tensor and mechanical pressure. #24
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module: thermo
new feature
New feature
release: minor
Issues that need to be addressed in a minor release
status: to do
Issues that someone needs to work on
Proposed new feature or change:
The (local) stress tensor can easily be calculated from simulation data using the Irving-Kirkwood stress tensor [1]. It can also be applied to non-equilibrium systems as shown in Ref. [2] (see Eq. 2). From the stress tensor, one can then calculate the mechanical pressure from its trace.
We should add this feature (stress tensor and pressure calculation) to AMEP's
thermo
module.[1] https://pubs.aip.org/aip/jcp/article/18/6/817/201367/The-Statistical-Mechanical-Theory-of-Transport
[2] https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.168201
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