EOS author: | Burkhard Militzer | Email: militzer at berkeley dot edu |
In close collaboration with | William B. Hubbard | |
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![]() Giant planet mass-radius relation in Jupiter units (figure 12 in Ref. [1])
| Using density
functional molecular dynamics simulations, we determine the equation of
state (EOS) for hydrogen-helium mixtures spanning
density-temperature conditions typical of giant planet interiors. In
our manuscript [1], a comprehensive equation of state table with 391
density-temperature points is constructed and the results are presented
in form of two-dimensional free energy fit for interpolation. This web
page was setup togive everyone access to our EOS points, the coefficients of the free energy fit, and our free energy interpolation code, which is currently written in Fortran 77. A C++ version could be constructed if there is sufficient demand. We found that our DFT-MD simulations led to significant EOS corrections (for details see [1]) to the well-known, semi-analytical Saumon-Chabrier-van Horn EOS, which gave rise to a recalibration of mass-radius relationship (left figure) in solar and extrasolar giant planets. |
![]() Temperature-density conditions were DFT-MD simulations were performed (figure 1 in Ref. [1])
| Comments:
This table contains the pressure, internal energy, entropy, and free
energy from our ab initio simulations a hydrogen-helium mixture of a
solar-type composition with 18 helium in 220 hydrogen atoms. The helium mass
fraction is Y=0.245. The density parameter rs is given by 4/3*pi*rs3=V/Ne where Ne is total number of electrons (bound and free) in volume V. The number density of electrons is n=Ne / V. The fit uses atomic units: rs is given Bohr radii = 5.29177208607e–11 m F and E are given in Hartree/electron = 4.35974380267e–18 J S is given in kb/electron where kb is Boltzmann's constant. Here is an example for an energy conversion. The zero of energy was set to state of isolated, neutral atoms at rest, which is constistent with the convention in the VASP simulation code. The groundstate energy is the isolate hydrogen molecule using PBE including zero-point energy then becomes -0.2386100 Hartree per molecule. Limitations: In density, the fit ranges from rs=3.581 to 0.526 [density = 0.06696 ... 19.97757 g/cc, log10(density)=–1.1742 ... 1.3005]. So an alternative EOS table is needed to model the outer envelop of a giant planet where the H-He mixture is at a lower density. The temperature range of the fit is 500 ... 120,000 K [log10(T)=2.6990 ... 5.0792] but only 1,000 ... 80,000 K is based on data from DFT-MD simulations. Elsewhere we use an extrapolation. |
Date | File description | Download link |
01-29-13 | Fortran 77 code that prints a number of EOS points based on the free energy interpolation | eoshhe_01-29-13.f |
01-29-13 | Output of EOS code | eos.out |
01-29-13 | Very similar Fortran 77 code that prints the adiabats rather than the EOS points | adhhe_01-29-13.f |
01-29-13 | Output of adibat code | ad.out |
01-31-13 | Machine readable table of the original EOS points derived from DFT-MD simulations | EOS.txt |
01-31-13 | Machine readable table of the 2D spline coefficients | EOS_fit.txt |