Second virial coefficients for a fluid of dipolar hard ellipsoids

We calculate the two body contributions to the pressure, dielectric constant, depolarized light scattering intensity, electro-optical birefringence (Kerr effect), and other properties, of a fluid whose molecules are hard ellipsoids with embedded central point dipoles. The results are presented for various molecular anisotropies and dipole strengths. The second dielectric and Kerr virial coefficients are found to be particularly sensitive to molecular shape.