Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol.121, No.3, 1548-1552, 2004
A consistent integral equation theory for hard spheres
The standard integral equation approach is used to extract the bridge function and other correlation functions of hard spheres fluid. To achieve this, we first use a recent consistent closure relation, proposed by Bomont et al. [J. Chem. Phys. 119, 2188 (2003)] that has already proven to be accurate to describe the Lennard-Jones fluid properties. Second, we take advantage of the coherent scheme, derived by Bomont [J. Chem. Phys,, 119, 11484 (2003)] to calculate the excess chemical potential, the. entropy and some relative transport properties. Very good agreement is obtained for structural quantities and thermodynamic properties as compared to exact data at densities ranging from 0.1 to 0.9. (C) 2004 American Institute of Physics.