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Uploaded by on Oct 23, 2007

Water freezing into ice, by simulation

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  • can a simulation like this include gravity to show "ice floating"?

    does recovery of the boiling point confirm the various parameters..

  • @walter0bz Computer simulation can reproduce the density difference between liquid water and ice, but the gravity (of the Earth) is too weak relative to the intermolecular interactions and that buoyancy is also too weak. If you apply extraordinarily strong gravity in the computer simulation, ice must float on liquid water.

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    curious,

    How do these simulations quantify van-der-waals & hydrogen bond strength.

    are they fudge factors which then get tweaked till you recover correct boiling points :) or is the method more accurate.

  • @walter0bz Generally speaking, computer simulation result is not very precise as you imagine. The molecular interaction is designed (tweaked) to reproduce various physical properties, but no one can reproduce all the properties of water.

  • Right. But the density decrease in the late stage of crystallization. This movie is showing the very early stage of nucleation where density change is small.

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  • This is a great video for helping students visualize why the denisty of H2O decrease upon freezing.

  • Was it published in Nature 2002? Very impressive.

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  • @vitroid0 - any recommended links showing the limits of precision in recovering real world properties? are there decent open source packages for this.

  • :(

  • Density decrease because molecules stabilize themselves leaving more space. Am I right?

  • Very good.

  • Does anyone know if this is an example of Homogenous nucleation i.e. the least likely type??

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