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The virial expansion is a model of thermodynamic equations of state.It expresses the pressure P of a gas in local equilibrium as a power series of the density.This equation may be represented in terms of the compressibility factor, Z, as = + + + This equation was first proposed by Kamerlingh Onnes. [1]
The parameters of the Pitzer equations are linear combinations of parameters, of a virial expansion of the excess Gibbs free energy, which characterise interactions amongst ions and solvent. The derivation is thermodynamically rigorous at a given level of expansion.
The virial theorem, and related concepts, provide an often convenient means by which to quantify these properties. In galaxy dynamics, the mass of a galaxy is often inferred by measuring the rotation velocity of its gas and stars, assuming circular Keplerian orbits. Using the virial theorem, the velocity dispersion σ can be
The first step in obtaining a closed expression for virial coefficients is a cluster expansion [1] of the grand canonical partition function = = / Here is the pressure, is the volume of the vessel containing the particles, is the Boltzmann constant, is the absolute temperature, = [/ ()] is the fugacity, with the chemical potential.
A is the first virial coefficient, which has a constant value of 1 and makes the statement that when volume is large, all fluids behave like ideal gases. The second virial coefficient B corresponds to interactions between pairs of molecules, C to triplets, and so on. Accuracy can be increased indefinitely by considering higher order terms.
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Statistical mechanics suggests that the compressibility factor can be expressed by a power series, called a virial expansion: [80] (,) = + = () where the functions () are the virial coefficients; the th term represents a -particle interaction.