Editing Oblate hard spherocylinders

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The '''oblate hard spherocylinder''' model <ref>[http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00268978400102401 M. Wojcik and K. E. Gubbins "Thermodynamics and structure of hard oblate spherocylinder fluids", Molecular Physics '''53''' pp. 397-420 (1984)]</ref>, also known as a discotic spherocylinder, consists of an  impenetrable cylinder, surrounded by a torus whose major radius is equal to the radius of the cylinder, and whose minor radius is equal to half of the height of the cylinder.
In the limit of zero diameter the oblate hard spherocylinder becomes a [[hard sphere model | hard sphere]], and in the limit of zero width one has the [[Hard disks in a three dimensional space | hard disk]]. A closely related model is that of the [[hard spherocylinders | hard spherocylinder]].
==Overlap algorithm==
An overlap algorithm is provided in the appendix of <ref>[http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3552951 Matthieu Marechal, Alejandro Cuetos, Bruno Martínez-Haya, and Marjolein Dijkstra " Phase behavior of hard colloidal platelets using free energy calculations", Journal of Chemical Physics '''134''' 094501 (2011)]</ref>.
==Excluded volume==
[[Excluded volume]] <ref>[http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00268970500077590 Bela M. Mulder "The excluded volume of hard sphero-zonotopes", Molecular Physics '''103''' pp. 1411-1424 (2005)]</ref>.
==Virial coefficients==
[[Virial equation of state | Virial coefficients]] <ref>[http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01588945 I. Nezbeda and T. Boublík "Hard oblate spherocylinders: Monte carlo virial coefficients", Czechoslovak Journal of Physics '''27''' pp. 953-956 (1977)]</ref>
<ref>[http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00268978900100861 W. R. Cooney, S. M. Thompson and K. E. Gubbins "Virial coefficients for the hard oblate spherocylinder fluid", Molecular Physics '''66''' pp. 1269-1272 (1989)]</ref>
==Isotropic-nematic transition==
[[Isotropic-nematic phase transition]] <ref>[http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cplett.2010.05.094 F. Gámez, P.J. Merkling and S. Lago "Parsons–Lee approach for oblate hard spherocylinders", Chemical Physics Letters '''494''' pp. 45-49 (2010)]</ref>.
==Columnar phase==
Oblate hard spherocylinders form a [[columnar phase]] <ref>[http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3028539 Alejandro Cuetos and Bruno Martínez-Haya "Columnar phases of discotic spherocylinders", Journal of Chemical Physics '''129''' 214706 (2008)]</ref>
==See also==
*[[Discotic liquid crystals]]
*[[Hard spherocylinders]]
==References==
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;Related reading
*[http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.49.3179 J. Šedlbauer, S. Labík, and A. Malijevský "Monte Carlo and integral-equation studies of hard-oblate-spherocylinder fluids", Physical Preview E '''49''' pp. 3179-3183 (1994)] 
*[http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08927020902833111 Bruno Martinez-Haya and Alejandro Cuetos "Simulation study of discotic molecules in the vicinity of the isotropic-liquid crystal transition", Molecular Simulation '''35''' pp. 1077-1083 (2009)]
*[http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00268976.2011.649794 L. Wu, H.H. Wensink, G. Jackson and E.A. Müller "A generic equation of state for liquid crystalline phases of hard-oblate particles", Molecular Physics '''110''' pp. 1269-1288 (2012)]


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