On equivalence of high temperature series expansion and coupling parameter series expansion in thermodynamic perturbation theory of fluids

A. Sai Venkata Ramana
2014 Journal of Chemical Physics  
The coupling parameter series expansion and the high temperature series expansion in the ther- modynamic perturbation theory of fluids are shown to be equivalent if the interaction potential is pairwise additive. As a consequence, for the class of fluids with the potential having a hardcore repulsion, if the hard-sphere fluid is chosen as reference system, the terms of coupling parameter series expansion for radial distribution function, direct correlation function and Helmholtz free energy
more » ... ow a scaling law with temperature. The scaling law is confirmed by application to square-well fluids.
doi:10.1063/1.4871115 fatcat:vvypq43tuvafloj4bsmj4tqtny