On the Ginzburg temperature of ionic and dipolar fluids
On the Ginzburg temperature of ionic and dipolar fluids
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关于离子和偶极流体的金兹堡温度
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1997
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W. Schröer
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作者:
V. Weiss;W. Schröer
Critical fluctuations in fluids are investigated within the framework of the generalized van der Waals theory. The square-gradient term—added to the Landau expansion of the Helmholtz free energy density—is obtained following a procedure similar to that originally proposed by van der Waals in the theory of surface tension, however replacing the Heaviside step function originally used by an approximative pair distribution function. Representative for ionic fluids we choose the restricted primitive model (RPM) and treat it within the Debye–Huckel theory, thus neglecting effects of ion pairing. The other approximative extreme—complete ion pairing resulting in a fluid of hard dipolar dumbbells—is mimicked by a fluid composed of dipolar hard spheres (DHS). For this case we use the Onsager reaction field and the second pressure virial coefficient. We calculate the amplitudes of the correlation length and the Ginzburg temperatures, and find (in reduced quantities) ξ0*=3.50 and ΔTGi*=0.0087 for the ionic system, a...