Triangular well model

The triangular well model is given by

$\Phi \left(r\right)=\left\{{\begin{array}{ccc}\infty &;&r\leq \sigma \\{\frac {\epsilon (r/\sigma -\lambda )}{(\lambda -1)}}&;&\sigma <r\leq \lambda \sigma \\0&;&r>\lambda \sigma \end{array}}\right.$

where $\Phi (r)$ is the intermolecular pair potential, $r$ is the distance, $\sigma$ is the hard diameter, $\epsilon$ is the well depth and λ > 1.

References

1. Damon N. Card and John Walkley "Monte Carlo and Perturbation Calculations for a Triangular Well Fluid", Canadian Journal of Physics 52 pp. 80-88 (1974)
2. F. F. Betancourt-Cárdenas, L. A. Galicia-Luna and S. I. Sandler "Thermodynamic properties for the triangular-well fluid", Molecular Physics 105 pp. 2987-2998 (2007)