20. Gorbaty, Yu. E.; Gupta, Ram B.. The Structural Features of Liquid and Supercritical Water.
Abstract
A universal approach based on the concept of preferential structure fluctuations was used to describe the structure of fluids in the liq. and supercrit. states. The structure of fluids can be presented as a limited set of thermodynamically beneficial mol. configurations arising as a result of fluctuations of the nearest environment. When applied to the structure of liq. and supercrit. water, this concept allows us to explain the unexpected response of the water structure to strong compression and the unusual behavior of the pair correlation function at supercrit. temps., and to examine the temp. dependence of hydrogen bonding. The phys. state of the supercrit. phase of water was analyzed, which is of practical significance. Some inferences drawn from the study of liq. and supercrit. water can be extended to the whole class of fluids.
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