Microforces and the theory of solute transport

DOI10.1007/PL00001517zbMATH Open0985.76082arXivcond-mat/9904312MaRDI QIDQ1589880FDOQ1589880

Authors: Eliot Fried, Shaun Sellers 

Publication date: 13 December 2000

Published in: ZAMP. Zeitschrift für angewandte Mathematik und Physik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A generalized continuum framework for the theory of solute transport in fluids is proposed and systematically developed. This framework rests on the introduction of a generic force balance for the solute, a balance distinct from the macroscopic momentum balance associated with the mixture. Special forms of such a force balance have been proposed and used going back at least as far as Nernst's 1888 theory of diffusion. Under certain circumstances, this force balance yields a Fickian constitutive relation for the diffusive solute flux, and, in conjunction with the solute mass balance, provides a generalized Smoluchowski equation for the mass fraction. Our format furnishes a systematic procedure for generalizing convection-diffusion models of solute transport, allowing for constitutive nonlinearities, external forces acting on the diffusing constituents, and coupling between convection and diffusion.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9904312

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zbMATH Keywords

diffusionconvectionforce balancegeneralized Smoluchowski equationdiffusive solute fluxsolute mass balance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Diffusion (76R50) Transport processes in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C70) Foundations, constitutive equations, rheology, hydrodynamical models of non-fluid phenomena (76A99)

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