Title: Molecular dynamics approach to simulation of methane hydrate
Abstract: In recent years, the use of a natural gas expands to a new energy source. The generation of carbon dioxide from a methane is less than an old fossil fuel. But the storing efficiency of a natural gas is not enough because the methane which is the principal ingredient of the natural gas is a gas in normal temperature and the normal pressure.However, since the methane hydrate contains greater methane than the volume of the methane gas by 100 times, if the methane is made from the methane hydrate the storing efficiency is greatly improved.This paper discusses the behavior of the methane molecules and the water molecules depending on the conditions of the temperature and the density by the computer simulation used Molecular Dynamics method (MD method).