Equation of state from symmetry

Abstract

Equation of state (EOS) describes the thermodynamic properties of substances. It has important applications in many fields such as power mechanics, geophysics, astrophysics, and detonation physics. Currently, most EOSs have been constructed using the ideal gas EOS as the base framework. However, this is inappropriate for the substances with high pressures or low temperatures that are far from the ideal gas state. Here we extract a concept of "ideal solid" that is symmetrical with ideal gas and propose its EOS. We verify that the ideal solid EOS represents the thermodynamic properties of the high-pressure and low-temperature limiting state. It indicates that the thermodynamic properties of substances have symmetrical characteristic. Then we develop a universal model by interpolation of the ideal gas and the ideal solid limits. We verify that the universal EOS has high description accuracy in a wide region. The concept of ideal solid and its EOS potentially provides a new direction for the development of the EOS theory.