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Viscosity and mutual diffusion in strongly asymmetric binary ionic mixtures

Plasma Physics 2007-05-23 v1 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

We present molecular dynamics simulation results for the viscosity and mutual diffusion constant of a strongly asymmetric binary ionic mixture (BIM). We compare the results with available theoretical models previously tested for much smaller asymmetries. For the case of viscosity we propose a new predictive framework based on the linear mixing rule, while for mutual diffusion we discuss some consistency problems of widely used Boltzmann equation based models.

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@article{arxiv.physics/0601082,
  title  = {Viscosity and mutual diffusion in strongly asymmetric binary ionic mixtures},
  author = {Sorin Bastea},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0601082},
  year   = {2007}
}

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10 pages, 4 figures