Abstract:Abstract. An analysis of isobaric expansion data for the liquid phase of refractory metals is presented. Simple equations of state based on soft-sphere model are used to generalize available experimental data on vapor pressure as well as isobaric and adiabatic expansion of liquid metals. In the cases of discrepancy of isobaric expansion data obtained by different experimental teams several equation-of-state variants are developed. It is shown for tungsten, tantalum, and vanadium that higher value of(dV/8T) P l… Show more
“…The overall conclusion emerging from this analysis is that CPE is a practical approach for obtaining thermodynamic properties of one-component fluids interacting via general potentials. Thermodynamic models of fluid properties, particularly in the two-phase region, are essential in applications involving equations of state of liquid metals [19,20], which are important in high pressure physics. It is expected that CPE will find good use in generating the equations of state data [21] in the fluid domain.…”
The objective of this paper is to investigate the convergence of coupling-parameter expansion-based solutions to the Ornstein–Zernike equation in liquid state theory. The analytically solved Baxter’s adhesive hard sphere model is analyzed first by using coupling-parameter expansion. It was found that the expansion provides accurate approximations to solutions—including the liquid-vapor phase diagram—in most parts of the phase plane. However, it fails to converge in the region where the model has only complex solutions. Similar analysis and results are obtained using analytical solutions within the mean spherical approximation for the hardcore Yukawa potential. However, numerical results indicate that the expansion converges in all regions in this model. Next, the convergence of the expansion is analyzed for the Lennard-Jones potential by using an accurate density-dependent bridge function in the closure relation. Numerical results are presented which show convergence of correlation functions, compressibility versus density profiles, etc., in the single as well as two-phase regions. Computed liquid-vapor phase diagrams, using two independent schemes employing the converged profiles, compare excellently with simulation data. The results obtained for the generalized Lennard-Jones potential, with varying repulsive exponent, also compare well with the simulation data. Solution-spaces and the bifurcation of the solutions of the Ornstein–Zernike equation that are relevant to coupling-parameter expansion are also briefly discussed. All of these results taken together establish the coupling-parameter expansion as a practical tool for studying single component fluid phases modeled via general pair-potentials.
“…The overall conclusion emerging from this analysis is that CPE is a practical approach for obtaining thermodynamic properties of one-component fluids interacting via general potentials. Thermodynamic models of fluid properties, particularly in the two-phase region, are essential in applications involving equations of state of liquid metals [19,20], which are important in high pressure physics. It is expected that CPE will find good use in generating the equations of state data [21] in the fluid domain.…”
The objective of this paper is to investigate the convergence of coupling-parameter expansion-based solutions to the Ornstein–Zernike equation in liquid state theory. The analytically solved Baxter’s adhesive hard sphere model is analyzed first by using coupling-parameter expansion. It was found that the expansion provides accurate approximations to solutions—including the liquid-vapor phase diagram—in most parts of the phase plane. However, it fails to converge in the region where the model has only complex solutions. Similar analysis and results are obtained using analytical solutions within the mean spherical approximation for the hardcore Yukawa potential. However, numerical results indicate that the expansion converges in all regions in this model. Next, the convergence of the expansion is analyzed for the Lennard-Jones potential by using an accurate density-dependent bridge function in the closure relation. Numerical results are presented which show convergence of correlation functions, compressibility versus density profiles, etc., in the single as well as two-phase regions. Computed liquid-vapor phase diagrams, using two independent schemes employing the converged profiles, compare excellently with simulation data. The results obtained for the generalized Lennard-Jones potential, with varying repulsive exponent, also compare well with the simulation data. Solution-spaces and the bifurcation of the solutions of the Ornstein–Zernike equation that are relevant to coupling-parameter expansion are also briefly discussed. All of these results taken together establish the coupling-parameter expansion as a practical tool for studying single component fluid phases modeled via general pair-potentials.
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