Theory of inhomogeneous fluids
- 1 July 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 24 (1), 560-571
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.24.560
Abstract
A theory of nonuniform liquids is presented which is based on the Yvon-Born-Green equation for the one-particle density and the Ornstein-Zernike equation of an inhomogeneous system. The necessary closure is effected by exploiting the solution of a modified hypernetted-chain equation and making a local approximation on the (highly universal) bridge function. The theory is successfully applied to model problems that have also been studied by direct-simulation methods. A brief generalization to quantum liquids is also given.Keywords
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