Mz. Bazant et Bl. Trout, A method to extract potentials from the temperature dependence of Langmuirconstants for clathrate-hydrates, PHYSICA A, 300(1-2), 2001, pp. 139-173
It is shown that the temperature dependence of Langmuir constants contains
all the information needed to determine spherically averaged intermolecular
potentials. An analytical "inversion" method based on the standard statist
ical model of van der Waals and Platteeuw is presented which extracts cell
potentials directly from experimental data. The method is applied to ethane
and cyclopropane clathrate-hydrates, and the resulting potentials are much
simpler and more meaningful than those obtained by the usual method of num
erical fitting with Kihara potentials. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All r
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