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The three-dimensional dynamic rupture behaviors of liquid film on plate and free liquid film are studied with molecular dynamics theory (MD) in this paper. Two stages in the simulated rupture process will be shown: (1) From the state of beginning equilibrium to the one of rupture occurred. (2) From the occurred to the latest state. The reason we use molecular dynamics is not only to avoid the difficulty that macroscopic theory cannot figure out but also to provide many microscopic details which we cannot get from macroscopic theory. The 12-6 Lennard-Jones potential model is adopted in the potential models of these two liquid-film system. The interactions among molecules obey Newton's 2nd law. When the system was in beginning equilibrium, we gave system a tiny perturbation and make it into nonequilibrium state. By continuously correcting total energy, we let the system move in the temperature which we previously set. After thin film being ruptured, this system was still calculated until formed the latest rupture state. At the same time we measured hole's diffusion rate and the dynamic contact angle between solid and liquid phase on the plate. For comparing with the result predicted by macroscopic theory, we adjusted various potential parameters to discuss the influence of those parameters on liquid-film rupture. In order to shorten calculation time, the conception of cutoff potential and the Gear's 5th order numerical method were used to predict every molecule's position and speed in any time. Statistical thermodynamic theory was also used to directly figure out the macroscopic physical values such as temperature, pressure and surface tension etc. It is found that strengthening the potential between liquid and liquid phase will quicken the rupture speed. On the other hand, if the liquid film potential between solid and liquid phase on plate was getting smaller, the rupture speed would not only be quicken but the hole's diffusion rate and the dynamic contact angle between the film and the interface of liquid and solid phase would be getting bigger. As the rupture process in first stage, the result which we simulated is similar to the one predicted by macroscopic rupture theory in qualitative analysis. But as the second stage, the contents predicted in our paper is to figure out the dynamic evolution process which is occurred after the rupture of liquid film but difficult to describe by macroscopic theory.
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