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PubMed2004

Application of Lagrangian theorem-based density-functional approximation free of adjustable parameters to nonhard-sphere fluid.

A recently proposed parameter free version of a Lagrangian theorem-based density functional approximation (LTDFA) [S. Zhou, Phys. Lett. A 319, 279 (2003)] for hard-sphere fluid is applied to hard-core attractive Yukawa model fluid by dividing bulk second-order direct correlation function (DCF) of fluid under consideration into hard-core part and tail part. The former is treated by the parameter free version of the LTDFA, while the tail part is treated by second-order functional perturbation expansion approximation as done in a recent partitioned DFA [S. Zhou, Phys. Rev. E 68, 061201 (2003)]. Two versions of mean spherical approximation (MSA) for the bulk second-order DCF are employed as input, one is the less accurate plain MSA whose tail part of the second-order DCF is strictly independent of a density argument, the other is the more accurate inverse temperature expansion version of the MSA whose tail part is not strictly independent of the density argument. Calculational results indicate that prediction based on the plain MSA is far more accurate than that based on the inverse temperature expansion version of the MSA. The reason is considered to be that the partitioned DFA requires that the tail part is highly or completely independent of the density argument, the plain MSA, by assuming that the tail part is exactly the potential itself, embodies all of the nonlinearities into the hard-core part which can be treated satisfactorily by the parameter free version of the LTDFA. The present investigation results in a universal method for constructing DFA for nonuniform any nonhard-sphere interaction potential fluids.

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Partitioned density functional approach for a Lennard-Jones fluid.

The existing classical density functional approach for nonuniform Lennard-Jones fluid, which is based on dividing the Lennard-Jones interaction potential into a short-range, repulsive part, and a smoothly varying, long-range, attractive tail, was improved by dividing the bulk second-order direct correlation function into strongly density-depending short-range part and weakly density-depending long-range part. The latter is treated by functional perturbation expansion truncated at the lowest order whose accuracy depends on how weakly the long-range part depends on the bulk density. The former is treated by the truncated functional perturbation expansion which is rewritten in the form of the simple weighted density approximation and incorporates the omitted higher-order terms by applying Lagrangian theorem of differential calculus to the reformulated form. The two approximations are put into the density profile equation of the density functional theory formalism to predict the density distribution for Lennard-Jones fluid in contact with a hard wall or between two hard walls within the whole density range for reduced temperature T(*)=1.35 and a density point for reduced temperature T(*)=1. The present partitioned density functional theory performs much better than several previous density functional perturbation theory approaches and a recently proposed bridge density functional approximation.

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