Transport Coefficients of Fluids / Edition 1

by Byung Chan Eu

Overview

In this monograph, the density—uctuation theory of transport coeficients of simple and complex liquids is described together with the kinetic theory of liquids, the generic van der Waals equation of state, and the modified free volume theory. The latter two theories are integral parts of the density—- tuation theory, which enables us to calculate the density and temperature dependence of transport coeficients of liquids from intermolecular forces. The terms nanoscience and bioscience are the catch phrases currently in fashion in science. It seems that much of the fundamentals remaining unsolved or poorly understood in the science of condensed matter has been overshadowed by the frenzy over the more glamorous disciplines of the former, shunned by novices, and are on the verge of being forgotten. The transport coeficients of liquids and gases and related thermophysical properties of matter appear to be one such area in the science of macroscopic properties of molecular systems and statisticalmechanicsofcondensedmatter. Evennano-andbiomaterials,h- ever, cannot be fully and appropriately understood without firm grounding and foundations in the macroscopic and molecular theories of transport pr- erties and related thermophysical properties of matter in the condensed phase. One is still dealing with systems made up of not a few particles but a multitude of them, often too many to count, to call them few-body problems that can be understood without the help of statistical mechanics and macroscopic physics. In the density—uctuation theory of transport coeficients, the basic approach taken is quite different from the approaches taken in the conventional kinetic theories of gases and liquids.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783642066412
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	11/19/2010
Series:	Springer Series in Chemical Physics , #82
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2006
Pages:	408
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.20(d)

Table of Contents

Transport Coefficients of Dilute Gases.- Boltzmann Equation for Dilute.- Transport Processes in Monatomic Gases.- Boltzmann Equation for Dilute Polyatomic Gases.- Transport Processes in Dilute Polyatomic Gases.- Transport Coefficients of Liquids.- Equation of State and Equilibrium Properties of Liquids.- Generalized Boltzmann Equation.- Generalized Boltzmann Equation for Polyatomic Liquids.- Dynamic Ornstein–Zernike Equation.- Density Fluctuation Theory: Simple Fluids.- Density Fluctuation Theory: Complex Fluids.- Free Volume Theory and Transport Coefficients.