Modeling of liquid internal energy and heat capacity over a wide pressure–temperature range from first principles

Proctor, JE

Abstract

Recently, there have been significant theoretical advances in our understanding of liquids and dense supercritical fluids based on their ability to support high frequency transverse (shear) waves. Here, we have constructed a new computer model using these recent theoretical findings (the phonon theory of liquid thermodynamics) to model liquid internal energy across a wide pressure–temperature range. We have applied it to a number of real liquids in both the subcritical regime and the supercritical regime, in which the liquid state is demarcated by the Frenkel line. Our fitting to experimental data in a wide pressure–temperature range has allowed us to test the new theoretical model with
hitherto unprecedented rigor. We have quantified the degree to which the prediction of internal energy and heat capacity is constrained by the different input parameters: the liquid relaxation time (initially obtained from the viscosity), the Debye wavenumber, and the infinite-frequency shear modulus. The model is successfully applied to output the internal energy and heat capacity data for several different fluids (Ar, Ne, N2, and Kr) over a range of densities and temperatures. We find that the predicted heat capacities are extremely sensitive to the values used for the liquid relaxation time. If these are calculated directly from the viscosity data, then, in some cases, changes within the margins of the experimental error in the viscosity data can cause the heat capacity to exhibit a completely different trend as a function of temperature.
Our code is computationally inexpensive, and it is available for other researchers to use.

Citation

Proctor, J. (2020). Modeling of liquid internal energy and heat capacity over a wide pressure–temperature range from first principles. Physics of Fluids, 32, 107105. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0025871

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Sep 17, 2020
• Online Publication Date: Oct 12, 2020
• Publication Date: Oct 12, 2020
• Deposit Date: Oct 13, 2020
• Publicly Available Date: Oct 13, 2020
• Journal: Physics of Fluids
• Print ISSN: 1070-6631
• Electronic ISSN: 1089-7666
• Publisher: AIP Publishing
• Volume: 32
• Pages: 107105
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0025871
• Publisher URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0025871
• Related Public URLs: https://aip.scitation.org/journal/phf
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