Transport Coefficients of Fluids

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Transport Coefficients of Dilute Gases

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9

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   2. Introduction

      Pages 1-8

   3. Boltzmann Equation for Dilute

      Pages 11-26

   4. Transport Processes in Monatomic Gases

      Pages 27-54

   5. Boltzmann Equation for Dilute Polyatomic Gases

      Pages 55-70

   6. Transport Processes in Dilute Polyatomic Gases

      Pages 71-90

3. Transport Coefficients of Liquids

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91

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   2. Equation of State and Equilibrium Properties of Liquids

      Pages 93-148

   3. Generalized Boltzmann Equation

      Pages 149-177

   4. Generalized Boltzmann Equation for Polyatomic Liquids

      Pages 179-220

   5. Dynamic Ornstein–Zernike Equation

      Pages 221-240

   6. Density Fluctuation Theory: Simple Fluids

      Pages 241-286

   7. Density Fluctuation Theory: Complex Fluids

      Pages 287-341

   8. Free Volume Theory and Transport Coefficients

      Pages 343-384

4. Back Matter

   Pages 385-407

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In this monograph, the density ?uctuation theory of transport coe?cients of simple and complex liquids is described together with the kinetic theory of liquids, the generic van der Waals equation of state, and the modi?ed 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 coe?cients 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 coe?cients 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 ?rm grounding and foundations in the macroscopic and molecular theories of transport pr- ertiesandrelatedthermophysicalpropertiesofmatterinthecondensedphase. Oneisstilldealingwithsystemsmadeupofnotafewparticlesbutamultitude of them, often too many to count, to call them few-body problems that can be understoodwithoutthehelpofstatisticalmechanicsandmacroscopicphysics. In the density ?uctuation theory of transport coe?cients, the basic approach taken is quite di?erent from the approaches taken in the conventional kinetic theories of gases and liquids.

• Kinetic theory of fluids
• Nonequilibrium statistical mechanics
• Nonlinear transport coefficients
• Transport coefficients of liquids
• mechanics
• transport
• fluid- and aerodynamics

• McGill University, H3A 2A7, Quebec, Canada

  Byung Chan Eu

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