Morphological Thermodynamics of Fluids: Shape Dependence of Free Energies

Abstract

We examine the dependence of a thermodynamic potential of a fluid on the geometry of its container. If motion invariance, continuity, and additivity of the potential are fulfilled, only four morphometric measures are needed to describe fully the influence of an arbitrarily shaped container on the fluid. These three constraints can be understood as a more precise definition for the conventional term "extensive" and have as a consequence that the surface tension and other thermodynamic quantities contain, beside a constant term, only contributions linear in the mean and Gaussian curvature of the container and not an infinite number of curvatures as generally assumed before. We verify this numerically in the entropic system of hard spheres bounded by a curved wall.

4 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in PRL

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