Equilibrium thermodynamic properties of binary hard-sphere mixtures from integral equation theory

Abstract

We present an equilibrium thermodynamic properties of binary hard-sphere mixtures from integral equation approach combined with the Percus-Yevick (PY) and the Martynov-Sarkisov (MS) approximations. We use the virial, the compressibility and the Boubl\'{i}k-Mansoori-Carnahan-Starling-Leland (BMCSL) equations of state in the PY approximation, while the virial equation of state is only employed in the MS approximation. We employ a closed-form expression for evaluating the excess chemical potential. The excess Helmholtz free energy is obtained using the Euler relation of thermodynamics. For a number of binary sets of the mixtures we compare our findings for thermodynamic properties with previously obtained results in the literature. Generally, the findings from the MS approximation show better agreement with the results than those from the PY approximation.Comment: 10 pages, 6 figure