Nematic virial coefficients of very long hard molecules and Onsager theory

1998 ◽  
Vol 94 (2) ◽  
pp. 335-339 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. VELASCO ◽  
P. PADILLA
Keyword(s):  
Virial Coefficients ◽  
Onsager Theory

scholarly journals On Using the BMCSL Equation of State to Renormalize the Onsager Theory Approach to Modeling Hard Prolate Spheroidal Liquid Crystal Mixtures

Entropy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (7) ◽  
pp. 846
Author(s):  
Donya Ohadi ◽  
David S. Corti ◽  
Mark J. Uline
Keyword(s):  
Equation Of State ◽  
Second Virial Coefficient ◽  
Virial Coefficients ◽  
Pure Component ◽  
Excluded Volume ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Prolate Spheroidal ◽  
Empirical Correction ◽  
Prolate Spheroids ◽  
Onsager Theory

Modifications to the traditional Onsager theory for modeling isotropic–nematic phase transitions in hard prolate spheroidal systems are presented. Pure component systems are used to identify the need to update the Lee–Parsons resummation term. The Lee–Parsons resummation term uses the Carnahan–Starling equation of state to approximate higher-order virial coefficients beyond the second virial coefficient employed in Onsager’s original theoretical approach. As more exact ways of calculating the excluded volume of two hard prolate spheroids of a given orientation are used, the division of the excluded volume by eight, which is an empirical correction used in the original Lee–Parsons resummation term, must be replaced by six to yield a better match between the theoretical and simulation results. These modifications are also extended to binary mixtures of hard prolate spheroids using the Boublík–Mansoori–Carnahan–Starling–Leland (BMCSL) equation of state.

Critical consolute point in hard-sphere binary mixtures: Effect of the value of the eighth and higher virial coefficients on its location

2010 ◽  
Vol 75 (3) ◽  
pp. 359-369 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariano López De Haro ◽  
Anatol Malijevský ◽  
Stanislav Labík
Keyword(s):  
Equation Of State ◽  
Binary Mixtures ◽  
Hard Sphere ◽  
Hard Spheres ◽  
Virial Coefficients ◽  
Fluid Mixture ◽  
Binary Fluid ◽  
Virial Series ◽  
Consolute Point ◽  
Critical Constants

Various truncations for the virial series of a binary fluid mixture of additive hard spheres are used to analyze the location of the critical consolute point of this system for different size asymmetries. The effect of uncertainties in the values of the eighth virial coefficients on the resulting critical constants is assessed. It is also shown that a replacement of the exact virial coefficients in lieu of the corresponding coefficients in the virial expansion of the analytical Boublík–Mansoori–Carnahan–Starling–Leland equation of state, which still leads to an analytical equation of state, may lead to a critical consolute point in the system.

The Bender Equation of State and Virial Coefficients

2000 ◽  
Vol 65 (9) ◽  
pp. 1464-1470 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anatol Malijevský ◽  
Tomáš Hujo
Keyword(s):  
Equation Of State ◽  
Virial Coefficient ◽  
Virial Coefficients ◽  
Low Density ◽  
Second Virial Coefficients ◽  
The Third ◽  
Temperature Dependences ◽  
Experimental Values

The second and third virial coefficients calculated from the Bender equation of state (BEOS) are tested against experimental virial coefficient data. It is shown that the temperature dependences of the second and third virial coefficients as predicted by the BEOS are sufficiently accurate. We conclude that experimental second virial coefficients should be used to determine independently five of twenty constants of the Bender equation. This would improve the performance of the equation in a region of low-density gas, and also suppress correlations among the BEOS constants, which is even more important. The third virial coefficients cannot be used for the same purpose because of large uncertainties in their experimental values.

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