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An Analog Macroscopic Technique for Studying Molecular Hydrodynamic Processes in Dense Gases and Liquids
Published on: December 4, 2017
Self-consistent fluid variational theory for the dissociation of dense nitrogen
Qi-Feng Chen1, Ling-Cang Cai, Ying Zhang
1Laboratory for Shock Wave and Detonation Physics Research, Southwest Institute of Fluid Physics, Mianyang, Sichuan, People's Republic of China. chenqf@nwnu.edu.cn
Abstract:
The self-consistent fluid variational theory is used to calculate the pressure dissociation of dense nitrogen at high temperatures. The accurate high-pressure and high-temperature effective pair potentials are adopted to describe the intermolecular interactions, which are made to consider molecular dissociation. This paper focuses on a mixture of nitrogen atoms and molecules and is devoted to the study of the phenomenon of pressure dissociation at finite temperature. The equation of state and dissociation degree are calculated from the free-energy functions in the range of temperature of 2000-15 000 K and density of 0.2-3.0 gcm(3), which can be compared with other approaches and experiments.
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