Accurate and local formulation for thermodynamic properties directly from integral equation method

Abstract

A local formulation for determination of excess chemical potential is derived out by applying an assumption of linear dependence of correlation function and bridge function on the charging parameter to the Kirkwood charging formula and scaling the bridge function, the scaling parameter is specified by a Gibbs–Duhem relation. The local formulation for the excess chemical potential only requires the correlation function and bridge function of the investigated state as input and is therefore free of an unwieldy thermodynamic integration. A comprehensive comparison between the presently calculated thermodynamic quantities for a Lennard–Jones (LJ) fluid including two key quantities, i.e. the excess chemical potential and excess entropy, corresponding simulation data available in literature, and corresponding calculated results by several other global and local formulations, indicates that the present formulation is the only one capable of predicting locally and excellently all of the thermodynamic properties of the LJ fluid. The GCMC simulation is carried out for a core-softened potential fluid and the LJ fluid near critical state and at subcritical state near the gas–liquid coexistence line to obtain the excess chemical potential which is also in excellent agreement with the theoretical prediction from the present formalism; this indicates that the present formalism is of general interest in fluid statistical mechanics and applicable to parameter space covering over the entire phase diagram.