The statistical geometry of voids in liquids

Pablo G. Debenedetti, Thomas M. Truskett

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Abstract

The characterization of the void region in amorphous packings is crucial to understanding the behavior of many physical systems. We describe some of the recent advances in quantifying, exactly, the volume and surface area of cavities in packings of hard spheres. We also discuss the extension of these methods for the calculation of a precise geometrical free-volume distribution in the hard-sphere fluid. Accurate information regarding the statistical geometry of the dense hard-sphere fluid is obtained. The role of the void space in novel simulations involving metastable liquids is also discussed.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)549-556
Number of pages8
JournalFluid Phase Equilibria
Volume158-160
DOIs
StatePublished - 1999
EventProceedings of the 1998 8th International Conference on Properties and Phase Equilibria for Product and Process Design - Noordwijkerhout, Netherlands
Duration: Apr 26 1998May 1 1998

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Chemical Engineering
  • General Physics and Astronomy
  • Physical and Theoretical Chemistry

Keywords

  • Free volume
  • Molecular simulation
  • Particle packings
  • Statistical geometry
  • Statistical mechanics

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