Beyond the Van Der Waals loop: What can be learned from simulating Lennard-Jones fluids inside the region of phase coexistence

American Journal of Physics

Volumn 80, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1099-1109

  Binder, Kurt ^a   Block, Benjamin J ^a   Virnau, Peter ^a   Tröster, Andreas ^b  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

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EID: 84870313201     PISSN: 00029505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1119/1.4754020     Document Type: Article

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