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Published on: November 3, 2017
The Wills-Harrison approach to the thermodynamics of binary liquid transition-metal alloys
N E Dubinin1, L D Son, N A Vatolin
1Institute of Metallurgy of the Ural Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Amundsen street 101, 620016, Ekaterinburg, Russia.
Abstract:
In the present study, the Wills-Harrison approach in conjunction with the Bretonnet-Silbert local model pseudopotential is applied to the thermodynamics of binary transition-metal liquid alloys. The calculation is performed in the framework of the variational method of thermodynamic perturbation theory with a hard-sphere reference system. The Vashishta-Singwi exchange-correlation function and the Nozières-Pines exchange-correlation energy are used. The free energy of mixing for liquid Fe-Co alloy is calculated at different compositions near the melting temperature. The agreement with the experimental data is quite satisfactory.
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