Comment on 'Molecular simulation and continuum mechanics study of simple fluids in nonisothermal planar Couette flows' J. Chem. Phys. 07, 2589 (1997)

摘要

We comment on the paper by Khare et al. [J. Chem. Phys. 107, 2589 (1997)], which considers simulations of confined fluids under planar shear with and without the application of a thermostat. We suggest an alternative interpretation of some of their results, which leads to the same conclusion that applying a thermostat directly to a confined shearing fluid is not the preferred simulation procedure to follow.