Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 2694–2697 (1995)Self-Consistent Treatment of Repulsive and Attractive Forces in Nonuniform LiquidsReceived 19 July 1995; published in the issue dated 2 October 1995 Structural and thermodynamic properties of a nonuniform liquid are related to those of a reference fluid with purely repulsive intermolecular forces in an external field. A new equation for that field derived from the Yvon-Born-Green hierarchy permits a self-consistent description of correlations induced by the exact repulsive forces and a mean field treatment of the attractive forces. Predictions of the theory for drying effects at repulsive walls and for the liquid-vapor interface are compared to molecular dynamics simulations. © 1995 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.75.2694
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.75.2694
PACS:
61.20.Gy, 68.10.Cr, 68.45.Gd
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