Water at negative pressure

DISORDER PARAMETER, ASYMMETRY AND QUASIBINODAL OE WATER AT NEGATIVE PRESSURES... 

THE STABILITY LIMIT AND OTHER OPEN QUESTIONS ON WATER AT NEGATIVE PRESSURE... 

A detailed review on cavitation in water is available [42]. We have tried to bring part of it up to date, focusing on the methods, summarized in Fig. 5, which are the most promising to gain knowledge on the properties of water at negative pressure. 

Molecular dynamics simulations can easily be performed in the metastable region, because the duration of the simulation is short enough to make nucleation highly improbable, except very close to the spinodal limit. The simulated EoS is therefore accessible. On the other hand, only a few attempts have been made to gain exper imental knowledge on the EoS of water at negative pressure, which could put to a test the interaction potential used in the simulations. As explained in Section IV.C, the first work is due to Meyer [69] who used a Berthelot-Bourdon tube to measure the relation between pressure and density down to —3.4 MPa at 24°C. Henderson and Speedy later measured the line of density maxima down to —20.3 MPa where it reaches 8.3°C [27,70], and the metastable melting curve down to -24 MPa [98]. 

T. D. Wheeler and A. D. Stroock, The transpiration of water at negative pressures in a synthetic... 

S. J. Henderson and R. J. Speedy, Temperature of maximum density in water at negative pressure,... 

J. Winnick, Erratum PVT behavior of water at negative pressures, J. Chem. Phys. 57, 1018 (1972). 

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