Using the core-mass approach, we have generated a vibrational-mass surface for the triatomic H3+. The coordinate-dependent masses account for the off-resonance nonadiabatic coupling and permit a very accurate determination of the rovibrational states using a single potential energy surface. The new, high-precision measurements of 12 rovibrational transitions in the ν2 bending fundamental of H3+...

We report six-dimensional quantum dynamical calculations of dissociative adsorption and associative desorption of the system H2/Pd(100) using an ab initio potential energy surface. We focus on rotational effects in the steering mechanism, which is responsible for the initial decrease of the sticking probability with kinetic energy. In addition, steric effects are briefly discussed. Typeset usin...

a novel computational fluid dynamics and molecular kinetic theory (cfd-mk) method was developed to simulate the impingement of a nanodroplet onto a solid surface. a numerical solution of the navier–stokes equation using a volume-of-fluid (vof) technique was used to model nanodroplet deformation. dynamic contact angle during droplet impact was obtained by molecular kinetic theory. this dynamic c...

We present a six-dimensional potential energy surface for the (H2)2 dimer based on coupled-cluster electronic structure calculations employing large atom-centered Gaussian basis sets and a small set of midbond functions at the dimer’s center of mass. The surface is intended to describe accurately the bound and quasibound states of the dimers (H2)2, (D2)2, and H2–D2 that correlate with H2 or D2 ...

We present full six-dimensional calculations of the bound states of the HF dimer for total angular momentum J50,1 and of the quasibound states for J50 that correspond with vibrational excitation of one of the HF monomers, either the donor or the acceptor in the hydrogen bond. Transition frequencies and rotational constants were calculated for all four molecular symmetry blocks. A contracted dis...

We carried out a molecular modeling study of an important reaction in the combustion of nitrogen-containing chars, the evolution of nitric oxide, (CNO)!NO+(C*). Density functional theory at the B3LYP level was used to provide potential energy surface information and transition state theory was used to provide temperature dependant rate constants. Desorption of NO from nitrogen-containing carbon...

The Valence-Shell-Electron-Pair-Repulsion theory, in its Points-on-a-Sphere (POS) variant has been heretofore almost exclusively applied to molecular structure. It is shown that the POS model also implies the form of the potential energy surface for · bending deformations of molecules. The extent to which this elementary mechanical model simulates quantum mechanical interactions in binary compo...

Smoothing the potential energy surface for structure optimization is a general and commonly applied strategy. We propose a combination of soft-core potential energy functions and a variation of the diffusion equation method to smooth potential energy surfaces, which is applicable to complex systems such as protein structures. The performance of the method was demonstrated by comparison with sim...

A detailed analysis of the He–NHsSd van der Waals complex is presented. We discuss ab initio calculations of the potential energy surface and fitting procedures with relevance to cold collisions, and we present accurate calculations of bound energy levels of the triatomic complex as well as collisional properties of NH molecules in a buffer gas of He. The influence of the external magnetic fiel...

The search for the global minimum of a molecular potential energy surface is a challenging problem. The molecular structure corresponding to the global minimum is of particular importance because it usually dictates both the physical and chemical properties of the molecule. The existence of an extremely large number of local minima, the number of which may increase exponentially with the size o...