
We use molecular dynamics techniques to study the microscopic aspects of several slow viscous flows past a solid wall, where both fluid and wall have a molecular structure. Systems of several thousand molecules are found to exhibit reasonable continuum behavior, albeit with significant thermal fluctuations. In Couette and Poiseuille flow of liquids we find the no—slip boundary condition arises naturally as a consequence of molecular roughness, and that the velocity and stress fields agree with the solutions of the Stokes equations. At lower densities slip appears, which can be incorporated into a flow—independent slip—length boundary condition. An immiscible two—fluid system is simulated by a species—dependent intermolecular interaction. We observe a static meniscus whose contact angle agrees with simple estimates and, when motion occurs, velocity—dependent advancing and receding angles. The local velocity field near a moving contact line shows a breakdown of the no—slip condition.
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