Transport Theory Of Inhomogeneous Fluids
Author | : Liudmila A Pozhar |
Publisher | : World Scientific |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 1995-01-16 |
ISBN-10 | : 9789814590853 |
ISBN-13 | : 9814590851 |
Rating | : 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Until recently, the Mori-Zwanzig projection operator method, though powerful and simple, has been considered as a half-heuristic one. This book is devoted to a rigorous generalization of this method as well as its applications to nonequilibrium statistical mechanics. The well-known idea of the description of dynamical system evolution in terms of collective dynamical variables has been developed to a functional perturbation theory, which results in the master equation of any given accuracy. Examples of statistical mechanics applications of the method include a linearized transport theory and explicit expressions for transport coefficients of both homogeneous and inhomogeneous liquids, which are in good agreement with experimental data and simulation results.