화학공학소재연구정보센터
Chinese Journal of Chemical Engineering, Vol.12, No.2, 256-262, 2004
Study on surface properties for non-polar fluids with density functional theory
The density functional theory, simplified by the local density approximation and mean-field approximation, is applied to study the surface properties of pure non-polar fluids. A reasonable long rang correction is adopted to avoid the truncation of the potential. The perturbation theory is applied to establish the equation for the phase equilibrium, in which the hard-core chain fluid is as the reference fluid and the Yukawa potential is used as the perturbation term. Three parameters, epsilon/k, d and m(s), are regressed from the vapor-liquid equilibria, and the surface properties, including density profile, surface tension and local surface tension profile are predicted with these parameters.