There still exists controversy on the sign and magnitude of the Tolman's length and the Tolman's gap.Further experimental,computational and theoretical investigations on them are needed to solve this problem.In 2006,Blokhuis and Kuipers obtained a rigorous relationship between the Tolman's length and other thermodynamic quantities for the single-component liquid-vapour system.In the present paper,we derive two general relationships between the Tolman's length and other thermodynamic quantities for the single-component liquid-vapour system.The relationship derived by Blokhuis and Kuipers and an earlier result turn out to be two special cases of our results.
For the determination of surface tension of liquid droplets by molecular dynamics simulations,the most timeconsuming part is the calculation of pressure tensor in the transition layer,which makes it difficult to enhance the precision of the computation.A new method for the calculation of surface tension of liquid droplets to reduce the calculation quantity of pressure tensor in transition layer to the minimum is proposed in this paper.Two thousand particles are taken as example to show how to carry out our scheme.
