Soft-sphere reference system in thermodynamic variational calculations. II. Liquid transition metals

Abstract

For pt.I see ibid., vol.18, p.1013 (1988). Successful ab initio calculations of the structure and the thermodynamic properties of liquid transition meals are presented. The calculations are based on the effective pair interactions of Wills and Harrison (1983) and a thermodynamic variational method with a hard-sphere Yukawa reference fluid.