Virial expansions

AJ Masters - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
The use and the properties of the virial expansion are reviewed and speculations given
concerning possible future developments. Firstly an account is given of the methodologies …

Phase diagram of highly asymmetric binary hard-sphere mixtures

M Dijkstra, R van Roij, R Evans - Physical Review E, 1999 - APS
We study the phase behavior and structure of highly asymmetric binary hard-sphere
mixtures. By first integrating out the degrees of freedom of the small spheres in the partition …

Progress in the perturbation approach in fluid and fluid-related theories

S Zhou, JR Solana - Chemical reviews, 2009 - ACS Publications
Since the formulation of the so-called high temperature series expansion (HTSE) by
Zwanzig, 1 thermodynamic perturbation theories developed along this line have been one of …

A concise course on the theory of classical liquids

A Santos - Lecture Notes in Physics, 2016 - Springer
There exist in the market many excellent textbooks covering equilibrium statistical
mechanics of liquids and dense gases. Why, then, yet another addition to the shelf? Is there …

Equation of state of a multicomponent d-dimensional hard-sphere fluid

A Santos, SB Yuste, ML De Haro - Molecular Physics, 1999 - Taylor & Francis
A simple recipe to derive the compressibility factor of a multicomponent mixture of d-
dimensional additive hard spheres in terms of that of the one-component system is …

Monte-Carlo integration for virial coefficients re-visited: hard convex bodies, spheres with a square-well potential and mixtures of hard spheres

AY Vlasov, XM You, AJ Masters - Molecular Physics, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
Techniques to adapt the hit-and-miss Monte-Carlo numerical integration are proposed with
the aim to determine virial coefficients up to eighth order in fluids of hard convex bodies …

Depletion effects and gelation in a binary hard-sphere fluid

L Lue, LV Woodcock - Molecular Physics, 1999 - Taylor & Francis
A study of the binary hard-sphere fluid with size ratio [sgrave] B/[sgrave] A= 0.1 is reported.
Molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulations have been carried out over the mole …

Three-body interactions in complex fluids: Virial coefficients from simulation finite-size effects

DJ Ashton, NB Wilding - The Journal of chemical physics, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
A simulation technique is described for quantifying the contribution of three-body
interactions to the thermodynamical properties of coarse-grained representations of complex …

Virial coefficients and equations of state for mixtures of hard discs, hard spheres and hard hyperspheres

A Santos, SB Yuste, ML De Haro - Molecular Physics, 2001 - Taylor & Francis
The composition-independent virial coefficients of ad-dimensional binary mixture of
(additive) hard hyperspheres following from a recent proposal for the equation of state of the …

RESEARCH NOTE Fifth virial coefficient of hard sphere mixtures

RJWFSPV Giaquinta - Molecular Physics, 1998 - Taylor & Francis
New calculations of the fifth virial coefficient are presented for binary hard sphere mixtures.
These improve on, and in some cases correct, previous results. A polynomial fit is used to …