Abstract
AbstractTemperature, particle number and volume are the independent variables of the Helmholtz free energy for a bulk fluid. For a fluid confined in a slit pore between two walls, they are usually complemented by the surface area. However, an alternative choice is possible with the volume replaced by the pore width. Although the formulations with such two sets of independent variables are different, we show they are equivalent and present their relations. Corresponding general statistical-mechanics results are also presented. When the pore width becomes very small, the system behaves rather like a two-dimensional (2D) fluid and one can wonder if thermodynamics still holds. We find it remains valid even in the limit of vanishing pore width and show how to treat the divergences in the normal pressure and the chemical potential so that the corresponding 2D results can be obtained. Thus, we show that the Gibbs surface thermodynamics is perfectly capable of describing small systems.
Funder
China Hunan Provincial Science and Technology Department
Austrian Science Fund
Austrian Science Fund (FWF): I 5257-N.
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
General Physics and Astronomy
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