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Statistical mechanics of fluids at an impermeable wall

V. M. Zaskulnikov
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The problem of surface effects at a fluid/force field boundary is investigated. A classical simple fluid with a locally introduced field simulating a solid is considered. For the case of a hard-core field, rigid, exponential, realistic, and macroscopically smooth boundaries are examined. Two approaches to this problem are analyzed. With some degree of arbitrariness, they can be referred to as "adsorption" vs "surface tension" or "cluster expansion" vs "pressure tensor". The "adsorption" approach is used to obtain a series in powers of the activity for gamma. For Mayer-type expansion the integrals of the Ursell functions contain factors which depend on the particle/wall interaction potential. In the case of a hard wall, the coefficients of the series reduce to the first moments of the Ursell functions taken over certain regions. The "surface tension" approach is used to expand the Kirkwood-Buff formula for gamma to the arbitrary localization of the dividing surface. "The surface tension coefficient" breaks up into the term proportional to the Henry constant, depending on the dividing surface position, and universal nonlinear surface coefficient. It is shown that the derivative of the tangential component of the pressure tensor with respect to the chemical potential coincides with the near-surface number density on average over the transition region, that has two consequences. Firstly, it proves complete identity between "tension" and "adsorption" approaches in the domain of their existence. Secondly, it gives the near-surface virial expansion, which determines the exact equation of state of near boundary "two-dimensional" fluid. The tangential component of the pressure tensor averaged over the transition region plays the role of pressure, and the average number density - the role of number density.

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V. M. Zaskulnikov. 2011-12-07. Statistical mechanics of fluids at an impermeable wall. https://arxiv.org/abs/1005.1063

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