Scaling law of shear viscosity in atomic liquid and liquid mixtures.
A scaling law relating the shear viscosity of one and two component liquid mixtures to their excess thermodynamic entropies defined through pair correlation functions is derived by approximating the mode coupling theory expressions of frictions and then combining with the Stokes-Einstein relation. Molecular dynamics simulation has been performed to generate the data of shear viscosity for one and two component liquid mixtures to test the derived scaling law. The derived scaling laws yield numerical results of shear viscosity for one component and two component liquid mixtures, which are in excellent agreement with the molecular dynamics simulation results for a wide range of density and interaction potential.
Ali
Sk Musharaf
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Chemical Engineering Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai 400 085, India. musharaf@magnum.barc.ernet.in