A particulate basis for a lattice-gas model of amphiphilic fluids

Abstract

We show that the flux-field expansion derived by Boghosian and Coveney for the Rothman-Keller immiscible fluid model can be derived in a simpler and more general way in terms of the completely symmetric tensor kernels introduced by those authors. Using this generalised flux-field expansion we show that the more complex amphiphilic model of Boghosian Coveney and Emerton can also be derived from an underlying model of particle interactions. The consequences of this derivation are discussed in the context of previous equilibrium Ising-like lattice models and other non-equilibrium mesoscale models.