A Born-Green-Yvon Integral Equation Treatment of Fluids and their Mixtures

该更新补助金资助理论研究，以将液态理论-Born-Green-Yvon积分方程技术-扩展到更复杂的流体（聚合物和聚合物混合物）。 这项研究有若干目标。 一个是更好地理解晶格和连续流体及其混合物。 另一个是在计算热力学性质的基础上，无论是晶格或连续理论的差异的确定。 最后一个目标是发展理论工具，这将是有用的实验解释结果。 虽然在简单液体的研究中很常见，但这里使用的方法在应用于聚合物方面是独特的，并提供了一种综合的理论方法，该方法介于更常用的聚合物晶格和连续介质理论之间。这项理论研究将建立严格的模型的聚合物液体和液体混合物，这将大大有助于解释实验结果，这类重要的材料。 研究结果还应该更好地看待更常用的理论。

This renewal grant funds theoretical research to extend liquid state theory - the Born-Green-Yvon integral equation technique- to more complex fluids (polymers and polymer mixtures). There are a number of objectives for this research. One is the greater understanding of both lattice and continuum fluids and their mixtures. Another is the determination of differences in calculated thermodynamic properties based on either the lattice or continuum theories. A final objective is to development theoretical tools which will be useful for experimentalists to interpret results. Although common in studies of simple liquids, the methods used here are unique in their application to polymers and provide a comprehensive theoretical approach which is midway between the more commonly used polymer lattice and continuum theories. %%% This theoretical research will establish rigorous models of polymer liquids and liquid mixtures which will greatly assist the interpretation of experimental results for this important class of materials. The results should also place more commonly used theories in better perspective.