Viscosity coefficients terms Links

There are twenty viscosity coefficients the twelve viscosities /xq to and Ai to Ae are associated with contributions to the d)mamic stress which are even in the vector c or do not contain c, while the remaining eight viscosities ki to kz and ti to Ts are linked to the terms which are odd in the vector c. 

The main objective of performing kinetic theory analyzes is to explain physical phenomena that are measurable at the macroscopic level in a gas at- or near equilibrium in terms of the properties of the individual molecules and the intermolecular forces. For instance, one of the original aims of kinetic theory was to explain the experimental form of the ideal gas law from basic principles [65]. The kinetic theory of transport processes determines the transport coefficients (i.e., conductivity, diffusivity, and viscosity) and the mathematical form of the heat, mass and momentum fluxes. Nowadays the kinetic theory of gases originating in statistical mechanics is thus strongly linked with irreversible- or non-equilibrium thermodynamics which is a modern held in thermodynamics describing transport processes in systems that are not in global equilibrium. 

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