Wertheim and Bjerrum-Tani-Henderson theories for associating fluids: a critical assessment
arXiv:1408.0031 · doi:10.1063/1.4892878
Abstract
Two theories for associating fluids recently used to study clustering in models for self-assembling patchy particles, Wertheim's and Bjerrum-Tani-Henderson theories, are carefully compared. We show that, for a fluid allowing only for dimerization, Wertheim theory is equivalent to the Bjerrum-Tani-Henderson theory neglecting intercluster correlations. Nonetheless, while the former theory is able to account for percolation and condensation, the latter is not. For the Bjerrum-Tani-Henderson theory we also rigorously prove the uniqueness of the solution for the cluster's concentrations and the reduction of the system of equations to a single one for a single unknown. We carry out Monte Carlo simulations of two simple models of dimerizing fluids and compare quantitatively the predictions of the two theories with the simulation data.
21 pages, 6 figures
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