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Virial coefficients for the two-dimensional hard-disk fluid, when expressed in powers of density relative to maximum close packing, lead to an accurate closed equation-of-state for the equilibrium fluid, analogous to that recently found for…
A new closed virial equation of state of hard-sphere fluids is proposed which reproduces the calculated or estimated values of the first sixteen virial coefficients at the same time as giving very good accuracy when compared with computer…
Although many equations of state of hard-disk fluids have been proposed, none is capable of reproducing the currently calculated or estimated values of the first eighteen virial coefficients at the same time as giving very good accuracy…
We present new molecular dynamics results for the pressure of the pure hard disk fluid up to the hexatic transition (about reduced density 0.9). The data combined with the known virial coefficients (up to $B_{10}$) are used to build an…
Recent values for virial coefficients up to B12, when expressed in powers of density relative to maximum close packing,lead to a closed equation-of-state for the equilibrium fluid. The series obtained converges for all densities;it becomes…
The exact transfer-matrix solution for the longitudinal equilibrium properties of the single-file hard-disk fluid is used to study the limiting low- and high-pressure behaviors analytically as functions of the pore width. In the…
Based on the survey of the literatures on the new improvements on the equation of state (EOS) for the hard sphere fluids, we here compare lots of different EOSs and present a very accurate equation of state for this kind of fluids. The new…
The available virial coefficients for the 2D hard disks model are transformed into a matrix representation of the thermodynamic potentials, which allows for an accurate description of the whole fluid phase, up to the phase transition. We…
We use video microscopy to study a two-dimensional (2D) model fluid of charged colloidal particles suspended in water and compute the pressure from the measured particle configurations. Direct experimental control over the particle density…
Using the first seven known virial coefficients and forcing it to possess two branch-point singularities, a new equation of state for the hard-sphere fluid is proposed. This equation of state predicts accurate values of the higher virial…
The asymptotic expansion method is extended by using currently available accurate values for the first ten virial coefficients for hard sphere fluids. It is then used to yield an equation of state for hard sphere fluids, which accurately…
A simple equation of state for hard disks on the hyperbolic plane is proposed. It yields the exact second virial coefficient and contains a pole at the highest possible packing. A comparison with another very recent theoretical proposal and…
An accurate description of a columnar liquid crystal of hard disks at high packing fractions is presented using an improved free-volume theory. It is shown that the orientational entropy of the disks in the one-dimensional fluid direction…
The question of whether the known virial coefficients are enough to determine the packing fraction $\eta_\infty$ at which the fluid equation of state of a hard-sphere fluid diverges is addressed. It is found that the information derived…
A proposal to link the equation of state of a monocomponent hard-disk fluid to the equation of state of a polydisperse hard-disk mixture is presented. Event-driven molecular dynamics simulations are performed to obtain data for the…
A general equation of state for the hard-body reference system of real fluid has been developed from first principles, statistical mechanical arguments using metric differential geometry to describe the "available volume," V0, and its…
A new analytical approach to derive an approximate equation of state and the virial coefficients for simple fluids is presented. Starting from the usual expression of the partition function, we first perform a Fourier transformation, and…
We evidence via a computation in the reciprocal space the asymptotic behaviour of the high order virial coefficients for a hard sphere system. These coefficients, if their order is high enough, are those of a geometric series. We thus are…
A correlation between maxima in virial coefficients (Bn), and "kissing" numbers for hard hyper-spheres up to dimension D=5, indicates a virial equation and close-packing relationship. Known virial coefficients up to B7, both for hard…
We propose a new semi empirical expression of the virial coefficients for a hard sphere fluid which is valid in the disordered phase over the whole density range. The results are in good agreement with the numerical data and better than…