Study of thermal properties of the metastable supersaturated vapor with the integral equation method.
Pressure, excess chemical potential, and excess free energy data for different densities of the supersaturated argon vapor at reduced temperatures from 0.7 to 1.2 are obtained by solving the integral equation with perturbation correction to the radial distribution function [F. Lado, Phys. Rev. 135, A1013 (1964)]. For those state points where there is no solution, the integral equation is solved with the interaction between argon atoms modeled by Lennard-Jones potential plus a repulsive potential with one controlling parameter, alpha exp(-rsigma) and in the end, all the thermal properties are mapped back to the alpha=0 case. Our pressure data and the spinodal obtained from the current method are compared with a molecular dynamics simulation study [A. Linhart et al., J. Chem. Phys. 122, 144506 (2005)] of the same system.
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School of Physics and Information Engineering, Jianghan University, Wuhan 430056, People's Republic of China. niechu@hotmail.com
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