Abstract
Thermal fluctuations in fluids and fluid mixtures in stationary non-equilibrium states are spatially long ranged. This long-ranged nature of the non-equilibrium fluctuations is caused by a coupling between hydrodynamic modes through the non-equilibrium fluxes or gradients. The phenomena are discussed with some illustrative examples in fluids and fluid mixtures.
Received: 2006-09-15
Accepted: 2006-09-30
Published Online: 2007-09-25
Published in Print: 2007-09-19
© Walter de Gruyter
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Articles in the same Issue
- Editorial
- Universal Concentration Dependence of the Soret Coefficient in Aqueous Systems
- Long-Wave Marangoni Instability in a Binary-Liquid Layer with a Deformable Interface in the Presence of the Soret Effect: The Case of Finite Biot Numbers
- Convective Instabilities in Thermogravitational Columns
- Colloid Thermophoresis as a Non-Proportional Response
- Influence of Nonlinear Concentration Profiles on Flow Patterns of Solutal Rayleigh–Bénard–Marangoni Convection
- Evaluation of Thermal Diffusion Models for Ternary Hydrocarbon Mixtures
- Mass Effect on Thermodiffusion using Molecular Dynamics
- Peculiarity of 3D Flow Organization in Soret Driven Instability
- Experimental Determination of the Soret Coefficient of Ionic Ferrofluids: Influence of the Volume Fraction and Ionic Strength
- Unified Hydrodynamic Model of Thermodiffusion and Cross-Diffusion in Liquids
- Study of Transversal Dimension Influence on Species Separation in Thermogravitational Diffusion Columns
- Fickian Diffusion Coefficient of Binary Liquid Mixtures in a Thermogravitational Column
- Thermodiffusion Coefficient for Binary Liquid Hydrocarbon Mixtures
- Thermal Fluctuations in Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics
- The Presence of Microconvective Instability in Optically Induced Gratings
- The Heat of Transfer in a Chemical Reaction at Equilibrium