Hydrodynamic Fluctuations in Fluids And Fluid Mixtures

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Pub. Date: 2006-06-28
Publisher(s): Elsevier Science
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Summary

This book deals with density, temperature, velocity and concentration fluctuations in fluids and fluid mixtures. The book first reviews thermal fluctuations in equilibrium fluids on the basis of fluctuating hydrodynamics. It then shows how the method of fluctuating hydrodynamics can be extended to deal with hydrodynamic fluctuations when the system is in a stationary nonequilibrium state. In contrast to equilibrium fluids where the fluctuations are generally short ranged unless the system is close to a critical point, fluctuations in nonequilibrium fluids are always long-ranged encompassing the entire system. The book provides the first comprehensive treatment of fluctuations in fluids and fluid mixtures brought out of equilibrium by the imposition of a temperature and concentration gradient but that are still in a macroscopically quiescent state. By incorporating appropriate boundary conditions in the case of fluid layers, it is shown how fluctuating hydrodynamics affects the fluctuations close to the onset of convection. Experimental techniques of light scattering and shadowgraphy for measuring nonequilibrium fluctuations are elucidated and the experimental results thus far reported in the literature are reviewed. · Systematic exposition of fluctuating hydrodynamics and its applications · First book on nonequilibrium fluctuations in fluids · Fluctuating Boussinesq equations and nonequilibrium fluids · Fluid layers and onset of convection · Rayleigh scattering and Brillouin scattering in fluids · Shadowgraph technique for measuring fluctuations · Fluctuations near hydrodynamic instabilities

Table of Contents

Introduction
1(4)
Nonequilibrium thermodynamics
5(34)
Local thermodynamic properties
5(3)
Equilibrium thermodynamics
5(2)
Continuum hypothesis and the assumption of local equilibrium
7(1)
Balance laws
8(12)
Mass balance
9(2)
Pressure tensor
11(4)
Momentum balance
15(1)
Energy balance
16(3)
Additional remarks
19(1)
Entropy balance, dissipative fluxes and thermodynamic forces
20(4)
Phenomenological relations
22(1)
Onsager's reciprocal relations
23(1)
Hydrodynamic equations
24(9)
Hydrodynamic equations for a one-component fluid
24(4)
Hydrodynamic equations for a binary mixture
28(5)
Boundary conditions
33(6)
Conditions at the interface between two continuous media
33(3)
A flat horizontal fluid boundary
36(3)
Fluctuations in fluids in thermodynamic equilibrium
39(24)
Fluctuating hydrodynamics
40(3)
Fluctuation-dissipation theorem for fluids and fluid mixtures
43(3)
Fluctuation-dissipation theorem for a one-component fluid
43(2)
Fluctuation-dissipation theorem for a binary mixture
45(1)
Hydrodynamic fluctuations in a one-component fluid
46(10)
Structure factor
51(3)
Equal-time correlations
54(2)
Equilibrium correlation functions and entropy probability functional
56(4)
Extension of fluctuating hydrodynamics to nonequilibrium steady states
60(3)
Thermal nonequilibrium fluctuations in one-component fluids
63(26)
Boussinesq approximation
64(6)
Bulk structure factor in the presence of a stationary temperature gradient
70(6)
Nonequilibrium effects on the Brillouin doublet
76(6)
Nonequilibrium fluctuations in heat conduction
82(7)
Thermal nonequilibrium fluctuations in fluid mixtures
89(24)
Linearized fluctuating Boussinesq equations for a binary liquid
91(6)
The linear stability problem
94(3)
Structure factor in a large-Lewis-number approximation
97(5)
Comprehensive structure factor of a nonequilibrium binary mixture
102(8)
Nonequilibrium fluctuations in isothermal free-diffusion processes
110(3)
Finite-size effects in hydrodynamic fluctuations
113(28)
The hydrodynamic operator
115(10)
Structure factors
122(3)
Hydrodynamic modes and decay rates for two free boundaries
125(4)
Hydrodynamic modes and decay rates for two rigid boundaries
129(7)
Decay rates for rigid boundaries in the limit of small q
131(3)
Decay rates for rigid boundaries in the limit of large q
134(2)
The slowest decay rate
136(5)
Thermal nonequilibrium fluctuations in one-component-fluid layers
141(26)
A fluid confined between two free boundaries
142(5)
A fluid confined between two rigid boundaries
147(5)
Limiting behavior of the structure factor for rigid boundaries at small and large wave numbers
152(3)
A Galerkin approximation for two rigid boundaries
155(7)
Correlations in real space
162(4)
Contribution of nonequilibrium fluctuations to heat transfer
166(1)
Thermal fluctuations close to the Rayleigh-Benard instability
167(18)
Critical slowing down of nonequilibrium fluctuations
168(1)
The most-unstable-mode approximation
169(3)
The Swift-Hohenberg approximation
172(3)
Power of thermal fluctuations
175(4)
Wave number of maximum enhancement of fluctuations
179(2)
Wave number of fluctuations with maximum growth rate
181(4)
Thermal nonequilibrium fluctuations in binary-fluid layers
185(28)
The hydrodynamic operator for binary Boussinesq
187(2)
A Galerkin approximation for rigid and impermeable boundary conditions
189(5)
Evaluation of nonequilibrium structure factors
194(3)
Structure factor in thermal equilibrium
197(1)
Nonequilibrium fluctuations for positive separation ratio
198(9)
Temperature fluctuations
199(5)
Concentration fluctuations
204(3)
Large-Lewis-number approximation for positive separation ratio
207(4)
Concluding remarks
211(2)
Experiments on nonequilibrium fluctuations in the Rayleigh-Benard problem
213(34)
Experimental techniques
214(15)
Small-angle light scattering
214(8)
Quantitative shadowgraph analysis
222(6)
Dependence of shadowgraph images on collecting times
228(1)
Nonequilibrium light-scattering experiments in one-component fluids
229(6)
Propagating modes
229(1)
Brillouin doublet
230(2)
Rayleigh scattering
232(3)
Shadowgraph experiments in one-component fluids
235(4)
Divergence of critical fluctuations near the onset of convection
235(2)
Critical slowing down of fluctuations near the onset of convection
237(2)
Light scattering in binary systems
239(7)
Nonequilibrium fluctuations in liquid mixtures
240(3)
Concentration fluctuations in dilute polymer solutions
243(3)
Shadowgraphy in binary mixtures
246(1)
Other nonequilibrium fluctuations
247(22)
Nonequilibrium fluctuations in isothermal one-component fluids under shear
248(4)
Nonequilibrium interface fluctuations
252(1)
Nonequilibrium fluctuations in nematic liquid crystals
253(3)
Concentration fluctuations in reaction-diffusion problems
256(13)
Equilibrium concentration fluctuations in reactiondiffusion
257(6)
Nonequilibrium concentration fluctuations in reaction-diffusion
263(6)
Epilogue
269(4)
Bibliography 273(24)
List of symbols and corresponding SI units 297(6)
List of abbreviations 303(2)
Subject index 305

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