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Ornstein–Zernike Relation and Percus–Yevick Approximation for Fluid Mixtures

R. J. Baxter
- 01 May 1970 - 
- Vol. 52, Iss: 9, pp 4559-4562
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In this paper, a transformation of the Ornstein-Zernike relation for fluid mixtures is derived which involves the direct and indirect correlation functions only over the ranges within which the former are nonzero.
Abstract
A transformation of the Ornstein–Zernike relation for fluid mixtures is derived which involves the direct and indirect correlation functions only over the ranges within which the former are nonzero. Also, two closed expressions for the compressibility pressure in the Percus–Yevick (PY) approximation for mixtures are presented. The analytic solution of the PY approximation for mixtures of hard spheres follows immediately, and it is expected that the results should be of use in numerical calculations for systems with short‐range forces, where the direct correlation functions normally tend rapidly to zero with increasing particle separation.

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Thermodynamic Properties of Mixtures of Hard Spheres

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the thermodynamic properties of a binary mixture of hard spheres by using the recently obtained exact solution of the generalized equations of Percus and Yevick for the radial distribution functions of such a mixture.
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Approximation Methods in Classical Statistical Mechanics

TL;DR: In this paper, the pair distribution function for a classical fluid in thermal equilibrium is found to be more closely approximated by the Percus and Yevick (Phys. Rev., 110: 1(1958)) approximation than by the Bogoliubov-Born-Green- Kirkwood-Yvon (B.G.K.H.) approximation or the hypernetted chain approximation.
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Ornstein-Zernike relation for a disordered fluid

TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that if the direct correlation function c(r) vanishes beyond a range R, then a third function Q(r), which is related to c and h (r) by equations that involve the functions only over the range (O,R), can be introduced.
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A New Approach to the Theory of Classical Fluids. I

TL;DR: In this article, an exact integral equation for the pair distribution function is found for the Helmholtz free energy and the integral equation can be derived also by means of a variational principle from the expression for the free energy.
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Percus‐Yevick Equation Applied to a Lennard‐Jones Fluid

TL;DR: An efficient method of solving the Percus-Yevick and related equations is described in this paper, where the method is applied to a Lennard-Jones fluid, and the solutions obtained are discussed.