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Using the Monte Carlo simulation technique the behaviour of the equimolar mixture of hard spheres and prolate spherocylinders of the length-to-breadth ratio equal to two was studied for the case in which both components had the same breadth. The surface-to-surface and the center-to-center correlation functions and the compressibility factor were computed and the results compared with theoretical predictions. Effect of non-sphericity of one component is shortly discussed.

Monte Carlo simulation method has been used to study angular correlations in the fluid of hard spherocylinders of the length/breadth ratio equal to 1.4,1.6, and 2.0, respectively. The correlation functions have been evaluated both by means of the spherical harmonic expansion and directly (at specific orientations) which enabled us to examine convergence of the former approach. The possibility of the ‘bottleneck effect’ has been investigated as well using two different simulation schemes.