Download or read book Theory and Simulation of Hard-Sphere Fluids and Related Systems written by Angel Mulero and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-07-09 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hard spheres and related objects (hard disks and mixtures of hard systems) are paradigmatic systems: indeed, they have served as a basis for the theoretical and numerical development of a number of fields, such as general liquids and fluids, amorphous solids, liquid crystals, colloids and granular matter, to name but a few. The present volume introduces and reviews some important basics and progress in the study of such systems. Their structure, thermodynamic properties, equations of state, as well as kinetic and transport properties are considered from different and complementary points of view. This book addresses graduate students, lecturers as well as researchers in statistical mechanics, physics of liquids, physical chemistry and chemical engineering.