Test of a universality ansatz for the contact values of the radial distribution functions of hard-sphere mixtures near a hard wall

Molecular Physics

Volumn 104, Issue 22-24, 2006, Pages 3461-3467

  De Haro, Mariano López ^a   Yuste, Santos B ^b   Santos, Andrés ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE ENERGÍAS RENOVABLES   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Contact values; Hard wall; Hard sphere mixtures; Radial distribution functions; Universality ansatz

Indexed keywords

BINARY MIXTURES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

COMPLICATED SYSTEMS; CONTACT VALUES; HARD WALL; HARD-SPHERE MIXTURES; UNIVERSALITY ANSATZ;

SPHERES;

EID: 34547324276     PISSN: 00268976     EISSN: 13623028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00268970601028963     Document Type: Conference Paper

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