Perturbation and variational approach for the equation of state for hard-sphere and Lennard–Jones fluids

The present work uses the concept of a scaled particle along with the perturbation and variation approach, to develop an equation of state (EOS) for a mixture of hard sphere (HS), Lennard-Jones (LJ) fluids. A suitable flexible functional form for the radial distribution function G(R) is assumed for the mixture, with R as a variable. The function G(R) has an arbitrary parameter m and a different equation of state can be obtained with a suitable choice of m. For m= 0.75 and m= 0.83 results are close to molecular dynamics (MD) result for pure HS and LJ fluid respectively.