Bell, I.
(2020),
Effective Hardness of Interaction From Thermodynamics and Transport in Dilute Gases, The Journal of Chemical Physics, [online], https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0007583
(Accessed April 19, 2024)
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Effective Hardness of Interaction From Thermodynamics and Transport in Dilute Gases
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The hardness of the effective inverse-power-law potential, which can be obtained from thermodynamics or collision integrals, can be used to obtain a coherent means of demonstrating similarities between thermodynamics and transport. This link is investigated for systems of increasing complexity (EXP, square-well, Lennard- Jones, Stockmayer, ab initio results for small molecules, and rigid linear chains of Lennard- Jones sites). These results show that while the two approaches do not yield precisely the same values of effective inverse power law exponent, their qualitative behavior is intriguingly similar, offering a new way of understanding the effective interactions between molecules, especially at high temperatures. In both approaches, the effective hardness is obtained from a double-logarithmic temperature derivative of an effective area. At low temperatures, the hardness of the effective inverse-power-law still provides physical insights, and offers a means of understanding the appropriate behavior of virial coefficients at temperatures far below where experimental data exist.Citation
The Journal of Chemical Physics
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152
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Journals
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Keywords
dilute gases, thermodynamics, transport, molecular interaction
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Created March 31, 2020, Updated July 8, 2020