An informal introduction to Statistical Mechanics of liquids is presented, emphasizing the key concepts and theoretical methodologies for a molecular description of “simple” liquids. The objective is to explain routes to explicit calculations of microscopic structure, thermodynamic and interfacial properties, time-dependent correlation functions and their link with transport coefficients. Possible extensions of this methodology to liquid metals and to water are briefly discussed.
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Hansen, J.P. (2008). Fundamentals of Liquids. In: Ghetta, V., Gorse, D., Mazière, D., Pontikis, V. (eds) Materials Issues for Generation IV Systems. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8422-5_19
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