Development of thermodynamically consistent machine-learning equations of state: Application to the Mie fluid

Influence of repulsion on entropy scaling and density scaling of monatomic fluids

Entropy scaling is applied to the shear viscosity, self-diffusion coefficient, and thermal conductivity of simple monatomic fluids. An extensive molecular dynamics simulation series is performed to obtain these transport properties and the residual entropy of three potential model classes with variable repulsive exponents: n, 6 Mie (n = 9, 12, 15, and 18), Buckingham's exponential-six (α = 12, 14, 18, and 30), and Tang-Toennies (αT = 4.051, 4.275, and 4.600). A wide range of liquid and supercritical gas- and liquid-like states is covered with a total of 1120 state points. Comparisons to equations of state, literature data, and transport property correlations are made. Although the absolute transport property values within a given potential model class may strongly depend on the repulsive exponent, it is found that the repulsive steepness plays a negligible role when entropy scaling is applied. Hence, the plus-scaled transport properties of n, 6 Mie, exponential-six, and Tang-Toennies fluids lie basically on one master curve, which closely corresponds with entropy scaling correlations for the Lennard-Jones fluid. This trend is confirmed by literature data of n, 6 Mie, and exponential-six fluids. Furthermore, entropy scaling holds for state points where the Pearson correlation coefficient R is well below 0.9. The condition R > 0.9 for strongly correlating liquids is thus not necessary for the successful application of entropy scaling, pointing out that isomorph theory may be a part of a more general framework that is behind the success of entropy scaling. Density scaling reveals a strong influence of the repulsive exponent on this particular approach.

Simulation and Data-Driven Modeling of the Transport Properties of the Mie Fluid

This work reports the computation and modeling of the self-diffusivity (D*), shear viscosity (η*), and thermal conductivity (κ*) of the Mie fluid. The transport properties were computed using equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations for the Mie fluid with repulsive exponents (λr) ranging from 7 to 34 and at a fixed attractive exponent (λa) of 6 over the whole fluid density (ρ*) range and over a wide temperature (T*) range. The computed database consists of 17,212, 14,288, and 13,099 data points for self-diffusivity, shear viscosity, and thermal conductivity, respectively. The database is successfully validated against published simulation data. The above-mentioned transport properties are correlated using artificial neural networks (ANNs). Two modeling approaches were tested: a semiempirical formulation based on entropy scaling and an empirical formulation based on density and temperature as input variables. For the former, it was found that a unique formulation based on entropy scaling does not yield satisfactory results over the entire density range due to a divergent and incorrect scaling of the transport properties at low densities. For the latter empirical modeling approach, it was found that regularizing the data, e.g., modeling ρ*D* instead of D*, ln η* instead of η*, and ln κ* instead of κ*, as well as using the inverse of the temperature as an input feature, helps to ease the interpolation efforts of the artificial neural networks. The trained ANNs can model seen and unseen data over a wide range of density and temperature. Ultimately, the ANNs can be used alongside equations of state to regress effective force field parameters from volumetric and transport data.