Density functional theory of phase coexistence in weakly polydisperse fluids
- 1 March 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review E
- Vol. 61 (3) , 3249-3251
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.61.3249
Abstract
The recently proposed universal relations between the moments of the polydispersity distributions of a phase-separated weakly polydisperse system are analyzed in detail using the numerical results obtained by solving a simple density functional theory of a polydisperse fluid. It is shown that universal properties are the exception rather than the rule.Keywords
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