| Abstract: | Two and three-body correlation entropies of model fluids, in which particles interact each other through the 4th, 6th, 9th and 12th-inverse-power potentials, were calculated from their atomic configurations obtained by molecular dynamics simulations at their freezing points. Besides the soft-core fluid model with the inverse-power potentials, hard-sphere and classical one-component plasma models were employed to provide a comparison with the entropies of the soft-core model. The correlation entropies were plotted as a function of the softness of the potential. These values were also compared with the excess entropies of the hard-sphere and the one-component plasma models at their freezing points. |
