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Structure factors obtained from diffraction experiments are one of the most important quantities for characterizing the electronic and structural properties of materials. Methods for calculating this quantity from plane-wave density…

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The problem of diffusion in a porous medium with a spatially varying porosity is considered. The particular microstructure analyzed comprises a collection of impenetrable spheres, though the methods developed are general. Two different…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-10-12 Maria Bruna , S. Jonathan Chapman

We develop a multidensity formulation of the Ornstein-Zernike equation with Percus-Yevick closure for hard spheres with anisotropic surface adhesion of tetrahedral quadrupolar-like symmetry. An analytical solution is obtained using the…

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Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Ronald Blaak , Jose A. Cuesta

By Wertheim-method the exact solution of the Percus-Yevick integral equation for a system of particles with the repulsive step potential interacting (collapsing hard spheres) is obtained. On the basis of this solution the state equation for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. Klebanov , P. Gritsay , N. Ginchitskii

By Wertheim method the exact solution of the Percus-Yevick integral equation for a system of particles with the "repulsive step potential",interacting ("collapsing" hard spheres) is obtained. On the basis of this solution the state equation…

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Accurate descriptions of reference systems are a central task in liquid-state theories for the study of more complex systems. Using scaled particle theory (SPT), we derive a fully analytical description of the thermodynamic properties of a…

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