Carnahan-Starling equation of state
The equation of Carnahan-Starling is an approximate equation of state for the fluid phase of the Hard Sphere model in three dimensions. (Eqn. 10 in Ref 1).
where:
- is the pressure
- is the volume
- is the number of particles
- is the Boltzmann constant
- is the absolute temperature
- is the packing fraction:
- is the Hard Sphere diameter.