Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Nanoscopic Couette Flow and Lubricated Nanoindentation

Molecular dynamics simulation is a powerful tool for the investigation of nanoscopic processes that are hard or impossible to investigate by experiment in detail at the molecular level. The present work concerns tribological properties of model systems which are described by the Lennard-Jones truncatedshifted potential. Two related scenarios are studied: 1) Couette flow; 2) lubricated contact of two solid bodies.