Comment on "Development of Equations of State for Compressible Liquids"

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Received Aug. 16, 1997; accepted for publication May 25, 1998. Copyright © 1998 by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc. All rights reserved. *Professor, School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering. Associate Fellow AIAA. thermal expansion coefficient and for the isothermal compressibility, or its inverse, a bulk modulus. The same assumptions, with an equivalent theoretical analysis, can be found in the textbook by Kestin. Still more sophisticated approaches to the modeling of the equation of state of a compressible liquid may be found in Refs. 3 and 4.