Optimal Energy Dissipation in Sliding Friction Simulations. Benassi, A., Vanossi, A., Santoro, G. E., & Tosatti, E. Tribology Letters, 48(1):41–49, October, 2012.
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Non-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations, of crucial importance in sliding friction, are hampered by arbitrariness and uncertainties in the removal of the frictionally generated Joule heat. Building upon general pre-existing formulation, we implement a fully microscopic dissipation approach which, based on a parameter-free, non-Markovian, stochastic dynamics, absorbs Joule heat equivalently to a semi-infinite solid, and harmonic substrate. As a test case, we investigate the stick–slip friction of a slider over a two-dimensional Lennard-Jones solid, comparing our virtually exact frictional results with approximate ones from commonly adopted dissipation schemes. Remarkably, the exact results can be closely reproduced by a standard Langevin dissipation scheme, once its parameters are determined according to a general and self-standing variational procedure.
@article{benassi_optimal_2012,
	title = {Optimal {Energy} {Dissipation} in {Sliding} {Friction} {Simulations}},
	volume = {48},
	issn = {1573-2711},
	url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s11249-012-9936-5},
	doi = {10/f37wx3},
	abstract = {Non-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations, of crucial importance in sliding friction, are hampered by arbitrariness and uncertainties in the removal of the frictionally generated Joule heat. Building upon general pre-existing formulation, we implement a fully microscopic dissipation approach which, based on a parameter-free, non-Markovian, stochastic dynamics, absorbs Joule heat equivalently to a semi-infinite solid, and harmonic substrate. As a test case, we investigate the stick–slip friction of a slider over a two-dimensional Lennard-Jones solid, comparing our virtually exact frictional results with approximate ones from commonly adopted dissipation schemes. Remarkably, the exact results can be closely reproduced by a standard Langevin dissipation scheme, once its parameters are determined according to a general and self-standing variational procedure.},
	language = {en},
	number = {1},
	urldate = {2018-09-13},
	journal = {Tribology Letters},
	author = {Benassi, A. and Vanossi, A. and Santoro, G. E. and Tosatti, E.},
	month = oct,
	year = {2012},
	keywords = {Dynamic modelling, Friction mechanisms, Nanotribology, Stick–slip},
	pages = {41--49}
}

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