In this work, the thermodynamic scaling framework has been used to emphasize the limitations of fully flexible coarse grained molecular models to yield shear viscosity of real liquids. In particular, extensive molecular dynamics simulations have confirmed that, while being reasonable to describe the viscosity of short normal alkanes, the fully flexible Lennard-Jones and Mie chains force fields are inadequate to capture the density dependence of shear viscosity of medium to long alkanes. In addition, it is shown that such a weakness in terms of coarse grained molecular models can be readily quantified by using the thermodynamic scaling framework. As a simple alternative to these force fields, it is demonstrated that the insertion of a variable intramolecular rigidity in the Lennard-Jones chains model exhibits promising results to model medium to long chain-like real fluids from both thermodynamic and viscosity points of view.

The structural and mechanical properties of dickite and nacrite are important in numerous scientific and industrial applications, but currently lacking in experimental data. To address this issue, numerical methods have been employed to quantify these properties. First, the interaction potential parameters for dickite and nacrite were determined using a relaxed fitting approach. Then, the properties were calculated with energy minimization. The results revealed that the interaction potential parameters and properties exhibit polytypic-specific dependence. When compared to available experimental and simulation data at zero pressure, such as lattice parameters, elastic constants, bulk modulus, and shear modulus, the calculated results are in good agreement, confirming the reliability of the numerical methods. In addition, properties challenging to determine experimentally, such as transverse and longitudinal wave velocities, dielectric properties, and piezoelectric constants, were also investigated, offering valuable contributions to the understanding of these kaolin polytypes.

Ce travail vise à étudier les propriétés de transport et le comportement poromécaniquede fluides simples confinés dans des nanopores lamellaires par le biais de simulationsmoléculaires. Pour ce faire, nous avons proposé différents schémas de simulations de ladynamique moléculaire dans des ensembles adaptés aux propriétés étudiées (diffusion demasse, viscosité, force de friction, gonflement …). Il a été note que les propriétés de transportde fluides fortement inhomogènes variaient fortement dans la direction perpendiculaire auxmurs solides. Nous avons alors proposé une approche non-locale permettant de déterminerquantitativement la viscosité locale de fluides inhomogènes à partir du profil de densité etapplicable pour des sphères dures, molles et le fluide de Lennard-Jones. Il a été égalementmontré qu’un fluide de Lennard-Jones fortement confiné pouvait avoir un comportementviscoplastique (et rhéofluidifiant) si un ordre structurel était induit dans le fluide par laposition relative des murs solides. Enfin, nous avons montré qu’une modification importantede la pression de solvatation du fluide confiné peut être induite par cisaillement ce qui peutinduire un gonflement « dynamique » d’un nanopore lamellaire.