How to Extend the Bridge Density Functional Approximation to the Confined Non-hard Sphere Fluid

A theoretical method was proposed to extend a bridge density functional approximation （BDFA） for the non-uniform hard sphere fluid to the non-uniform Lennard-Jones （LJ） fluid. The DFT approach for LJ fluid is simple, quantitatively accurate in a wide range of coexistence phase and external field parameters. Especially, the DFT approach only needs a second order direct correlation function （DCF） of the coexistence bulk fluid as input, and is therefore applicable to the subcritical temperature region. The present theoretical method can be regarded as a non-uniform counterpart of the thermodynamic perturbation theory, in which it is not at the level of the free energy but at the level of the second order DCF.the National Natural Science Foundation of China （No. 20546004） and the Natural Science Foundation of Education Department of Hunan Province （No.04C711）.