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Theories based on the solution to integral equations for the pair correlation fiinctions are now well developed and widely employed in numerical and analytic studies of simple fluids [6]. Furtlier improvements for simple fluids would require better approximations for the bridge fiinctions B(r). It has been suggested that these fiinctions can be scaled to the same fiinctional fomi for different potentials. The extension of integral equation theories to molecular fluids was first accomplished by Chandler and Andersen [30] through the introduction of the site-site direct correlation fiinction c r) between atoms in each molecule and a site-site Omstein-Zemike relation called the reference interaction site... 

Fisher M 1964 Correlation functions and the critical region of simple fluids J. Math. Phys. 5 944... 

For simple fluids Nq is estimated to be about 0.01, and Kostrowicka Wyczalkowska et aJ [29] have vised this to apply crossover theory to the van der Waals equation with interesting resnlts. The critical temperature is reduced by 11% and the coexistence curve is of course flattened to a cvibic. The critical density is almost unchanged (by 2%), bnt the critical pressure p is reduced greatly by 38%. These changes redvice the critical... 

However, for more complex fluids such as high-polymer solutions and concentrated ionic solutions, where the range of intemiolecular forces is much longer than that for simple fluids and Nq is much smaller, mean-field behaviour is observed much closer to the critical point. Thus the crossover is sharper, and it can also be nonmonotonic. 

In many simple fluids, it is experimentally found that the thennodynamie derivative (dE/dT) is approximately zero. One then has a simple result that... 

Straub J E, Berne B J and Roux B 1990 Spatial dependence of time-dependent friction for pair diffusion in a simple fluid J. Chem. Phys. 93 6804... 

In the theory of the liquid state, the hard-sphere model plays an important role. For hard spheres, the pair interaction potential V r) = qo for r < J, where d is the particle diameter, whereas V(r) = 0 for r s d. The stmcture of a simple fluid, such as argon, is very similar to that of a hard-sphere fluid. Hard-sphere atoms do, of course, not exist. Certain model colloids, however, come very close to hard-sphere behaviour. These systems have been studied in much detail and some results will be quoted below. 

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In configurations more complex than pipes, eg, flow around bodies or through nozzles, additional shearing stresses and velocity gradients must be accounted for. More general equations for some simple fluids in laminar flow are described in Reference 1. 

Simple Fluids. Spherical compounds having Httle molecular interaction, eg, argon, krypton, xenon, and methane, are known as simple fluids and obey the theory of corresponding states. 

The method of Lee and KesleF is the preferred method if the critical temperature and the critical pressure of the hydrocarbon is known or can be reasonably predicted by the methods of the first section. The corresponding states method is shown in equation (2-31) with the simple fluid and correction terms to be calculated from equations (2-32) and (2-33), respectively, for any Tr-... 

FIGt 2-35 Generalized compressibility factors—Pitzer Method, simple fluid term. 

The parameters in the equation are calculated for the simple fluid and the heavy reference fluid with an acentric factor of 0.3978. The parameters in the equation are calculated for the simple fluid and the heavy reference fluid from Eq. (2-79)... 

Constant Simple fluid Heavy reference fluid... 

Hence, the application of these formulas only applies to very dilute systems. At high particle concentrations, mutual interference in the motion of particles exists, and the rate of settling is considerably less than that computed by the given expressions. In the latter case, the particle is settling through a suspension of particles in a fluid, rather than through a simple fluid medium. 

Other factors which can affect impact behaviour are fabrication defects such as internal voids, inclusions and additives such as pigments, all of which can cause stress concentrations within the material. In addition, internal welds caused by the fusion of partially cooled melt fronts usually turn out to be areas of weakness. The environment may also affect impact behaviour. Plastics exposed to sunlight and weathering for prolonged periods tend to become embrittled due to degradation. Alternatively if the plastic is in the vicinity of a fluid which attacks it, then the crack initiation energy may be reduced. Some plastics are affected by very simple fluids e.g. domestic heating oils act as plasticisers for polyethylene. The effect which water can have on the impact behaviour of nylon is also spectacular as illustrated in Fig. 2.80. 

According to Allen and Tildesley, the standard recipe to evaluate Af/ in step one of the algorithm described in Sec. IIIB involves computing the energy of atom i with all the other atoms before and after the move (see p. 159 of Ref. 25, italics by the present author) as far as simple fluids are concerned. The evaluation of Af/ can be made more efficient in this case by realizing that for short-range interactions U can be split into three contributions... 

To illustrate the relationship between the microscopic structure and experimentally accessible information, we compute pseudo-experimental solvation-force curves F h)/R [see Eq. (22)] as they would be determined in SEA experiments from computer-simulation data for T z [see Eqs. (93), (94), (97)]. Numerical values indicated by an asterisk are given in the customary dimensionless (i.e., reduced) units (see [33,75,78] for definitions in various model systems). Results are correlated with the microscopic structure of a thin film confined between plane parallel substrates separated by a distance = h. Here the focus is specifically on a simple fluid in which the interaction between a pair of film molecules is governed by the Lennard-Jones (12,6) potential [33,58,59,77,79-84]. A confined simple fluid serves as a suitable model for approximately spherical OMCTS molecules confined... 

As in the ease of a simple -fluid film, the normal eomponent of the stress tensor is a damped oseillatory funetion of substrate separation (see Fig. 7). Over the range 4.0 < < 16.15,/ s ) exhibits four maxima separated by a... 

FIG. 19 Scheme of a simple fluid confined by a chemically heterogeneous model pore. Fluid modecules (grey spheres) are spherically symmetric. Each substrate consists of a sequence of crystallographic planes separated by a distance 8 along the z axis. The surface planes of the two opposite substrates are separated by a distance s,. Periodic boundary conditions are imposed in the x and y directions (see text) (from Ref. 77). 

The interaction of a simple fluid with a single chemically heterogeneous substrate has also been studied. Koch et al. consider a semiinfinite planar substrate with a sharp junction between weakly and strongly attractive portions and investigate the influence of this junction on the density profile of the fluid in front of the substrate [172-174]. Lenz and Lipowsky, on the other hand, are concerned with formation and morphology of micrometer droplets [175]. 

S. Sarman. The influence of the fluid-wall interaction potential on the structure of a simple fluid in a narrow slit. J Chem Phys 92 4447—4455, 1990. 

R. Evans. Microscopic theories of simple fluids and their interfaces. In J. Charvolin, J. F. Joanny, J. Zinn-Justin, eds. Liquids at Interfaces. Amsterdam North-Holland, 1990, pp. 4-98. 

M. Schoen, D. J. Diestler. Analytical treatment of a simple fluid adsorbed in a slit-pore. J Chem Phys 709 5596-5605, 1998. 

H. Bock, M. Schoen. Phase behavior of a simple fluid confined between chemically corrugated substrates. Phys Rev E 59 4122—4136, 1999. 

P. Roeken. Capillary eondensation of simple fluids in ehemieally struetured slit-pores from statistieal-meehanieal ealeulations to a thermodynamie theory. PhD dissertation, Teehnisehe Universitat Berlin, Berlin, 1998. 

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