Keywords

novel perturbation, hard-core Yukawa fluid, structure factor, Lennard-Jones

Abstract

A novel perturbation approach for the structure factor S(k) of the Lennard-Jones-type Yukawa fluid with z=1.8 is presented. An approach is based on a new reference system, that is, the short-range Yukawa model with z0 > z=1.8. By choosing for the reference system the value z0=6, it is shown that (i) the proposed approach for S(k) performs much better than the traditional hard-sphere reference perturbation method does; (ii) the use of an approximate mean spherical (MSA) description of the reference structure factor provides the results for S(k) that are more accurate as those obtained from the direct MSA computations; and (iii) the results obtained for S(k) tend to reproduce exact simulation results when accurate simulation data for the reference system are used.

Original Publication Citation

Melnyk, Roman, Filip Mou, Ivo Nezbeda, and Andrij Trokhymchuk."Novel perturbation approach for the structure factor of the attractive hard-core Yukawa fluid." The Journal of Chemical Physics 127 (27).

Document Type

Peer-Reviewed Article

Publication Date

2007-09-06

Permanent URL

http://hdl.lib.byu.edu/1877/1334

Publisher

AIP

Language

English

College

Physical and Mathematical Sciences

Department

Chemistry and Biochemistry

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