A simple method of generating equations of state for hard sphere fluid

Abstract

We present in this paper a simple method of obtaining various equations of state for hard sphere fluid in a simple unifying way. Using the first several virial coefficients of hard sphere fluid, we will guess equations of state by using the asymptotic expansion method. Among the equations of state obtained in this way are Percus–Yevick, Scaled Particle Theory, and Carnahan–Starling equations of state. Also by combining the Monte Carlo results on hard sphere fluid with the asymptotic expansion method many other equations of state for hard sphere fluid can be found where all of them give essentially similar results in the region of isotropic hard sphere liquid, i.e., up to η < 0.5, in which η is the packing fraction. In addition we have found a simple equation of state for the hard sphere fluid in the metastable region which represents the simulation data accurately.