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Transport Coefficients of Fluids (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2006)
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Transport Coefficients of Fluids (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2006)
Series: Springer Series in Chemical Physics, 82
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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
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