Effects of neutrino degeneracy on the transport properties of presupernovae

Degeneracy of neutrinos undergoing coherent scattering by atomic nuclei inhibits their diffusion and enhances their thermal conduction and viscosity. For great degeneracy diffusion vanishes, while viscosity becomes independent of the temperature; the heat conductivity becomes independent of the neutrino chemical potential after attaining a maximum in the regime of intermediate degeneracy.     

Shear Viscosity of Hot QED at Finite Chemical Potential from Kubo Formula

Within the framework of finite temperature field theory this paper discusses the shear viscosity of hot QED plasma through Kubo formula at one-loop skeleton diagram level with a finite chemical potential. The effective widths (damping rates) are introduced to regulate the pinch singularities and then gives a reliable estimation of the shear viscous coefficient. The finite chemical potential contributes positively compared to the pure temperature case. The result agrees with that from the kinetics theory qualitatively.     

金属熔体黏度与结构相关性的分子动力学模拟

运用EAM(embed atom method)作用势，采用非平衡分子动力学模拟获得Al熔体的偶分布函数与黏度数值随温度的变化曲线，偶分布函数的计算结果与实验值符合得较好.对模拟所得到的黏度数据编程实现黏度的Arrhenius公式拟合，得到激活能E.并利用模拟所得到的黏度值及激活能对Lennard-Jones(L-J)作用势进行修正，获得黏度与偶分布函数及原子间相互作用势之间的关系式，两条黏度拟合曲线与分子动力模拟结果符合得比较好，说明拟合程序的编写是比较成功的，实现了对L-J作用势的修正.该研究为金属及合金原子间相互作用势的建立提供了新的思路. 关键词： 非平衡分子动力学模拟 L-J作用势修正 Al熔体 结构与黏度相关性     

Bulk viscosity of low-temperature strongly interacting matter

We study the bulk viscosity of a pion gas in unitarized Chiral Perturbation Theory at low and moderate temperatures, below any phase transition to a quark-gluon plasma phase.We argue that inelastic processes are irrelevant and exponentially suppressed at low temperatures. Since the system falls out of chemical equilibrium upon expansion, a pion chemical potential must be introduced, so we extend the existing theories that include it. We control the zero modes of the collision operator and Landau?s conditions of fit when solving the Boltzmann equation with the elastic collision kernel.The dependence of the bulk viscosity with temperature is reminiscent of the findings of Fernández-Fraile and Gómez Nicola (2009) [1], while the numerical value is closer to that of Davesne (1996) [2]. In the zero-temperature limit we correctly recover the vanishing viscosity associated to a non-relativistic monoatomic gas.     

分散介质和温度对纳米二氧化硅胶体剪切增稠行为的影响

对分散介质和温度对纳米二氧化硅胶体剪切增稠行为的影响进行了系统研究. 用四种液体分散介质(乙二醇, 聚乙二醇400, 丙二醇, 聚丙二醇400)制备的纳米二氧化硅胶体表现出不同的连续剪切增稠或者跳变剪切增稠行为. 温度上升降低了分散介质的黏度, 进而降低了胶体的表观黏度. 剪切增稠的临界黏度与温度的关系符合“Arrhenius”公式的描述. 胶体黏度与分散介质黏度的比值用来归一化不同温度下的稳态剪切流变曲线. 在低剪切速率的剪切变稀阶段, 剪切变稀现象与分散介质黏度没有明显相关性, 而与分散介质的化学性质密切相关. 在高剪切速率的剪切增稠阶段, 分散介质黏度越高, 胶体剪切增稠现象越强烈.     

The NMR and Viscosity Investigations of 1,3- and 1,4-Dioxanes in Binary Aqueous Solutions

The measurements of ¹H NMR chemical shift and the shear viscosity as a function of temperature and concentration for 1, 3-and 1,4-dioxane-water system were carried out. Our experimental results are consistent with data derived from other works. Both the chemical shift and viscosity data suggested the association processes between water and dioxane molecules.     

液态Sn的粘度及其熔体微观结构的变化

通过对液态Sn的粘度的系统测量和分析,借助DTA-TG综合热分析方法,研究了金属熔体Sn的粘度随温度变化的规律和熔体微观结构的变化.结果表明,Sn熔体的粘度随温度的变化呈明显的不连续性,根据粘度的变化可以将熔体状态分为高温区、中温区和低温区,各温区间存在粘度突变温度点.在突变温度点处,金属熔体Sn可能发生了微观结构的变化.?     

Three-quark potential at finite temperature and chemical potential

Using gauge/gravity duality, we study the potential energy and the melting of triply heavy baryon at finite temperature and chemical potential in this paper. First, we calculate the three-quark potential and compare the results with quark-antiquark potential. With the increase of temperature and chemical potential, the potential energy will decrease at large distances. It is found that the three-quark potential will have an endpoint at high temperature and/or large chemical potential, which means triply heavy baryons will melt at enough high temperature and/or large chemical potential. We also discuss screening distance which can be extracted from the three-quark potential. At last, we draw the melting diagram of triply heavy baryons in the \begin{document}$ T-\mu $\end{document} plane.     

Shear viscosity of two-dimensional Yukawa systems in the liquid state

The shear viscosity of a two-dimensional (2D) liquid was calculated using molecular dynamics simulations with a Yukawa potential. The viscosity has a minimum at a Coulomb coupling parameter Gamma of about 17, arising from the temperature dependence of the kinetic and potential contributions. Previous calculations of 2D viscosity were less extensive as well as for a different potential. The stress autocorrelation function was found to decay rapidly, contrary to earlier work. These results are useful for 2D condensed matter systems and are compared to a dusty plasma experiment.     

Study of thermal and chemical effects on cellulase enzymes: Viscosity measurements

The behaviour of cellulase enzymes in phosphate saline buffer has been studied over a wide range of temperatures and enzyme concentrations by using viscosity measurements. To characterize the conformation change of cellulase versus temperature and chemical denaturants, such as guanidinium chloride (GdmCl) and urea, the information about the intrinsic viscosity and the hydrodynamic radius are necessary. The dependence of the intrinsic viscosity and the hydrodynamic radius in its random coil conformation on temperature and denaturant concentration were studied. Our results and discussions are limited to the dilute regime of concentration because of abnormalities in conformation observed in the very dilute regime due to the presence of capillary absorption effects.     

First and second sound in cylindrically trapped gases

We investigate the propagation of density and temperature waves in a cylindrically trapped gas with radial harmonic confinement. Starting from two-fluid hydrodynamic theory we derive effective 1D equations for the chemical potential and the temperature which explicitly account for the effects of viscosity and thermal conductivity. Differently from quantum fluids confined by rigid walls, the harmonic confinement allows for the propagation of both first and second sound in the long wavelength limit. We provide quantitative predictions for the two sound velocities of a superfluid Fermi gas at unitarity. For shorter wavelengths we discover a new surprising class of excitations continuously spread over a finite interval of frequencies. This results in a nondissipative damping in the response function which is analytically calculated in the limiting case of a classical ideal gas.     

A Rheological Study of Xanthan Polymer for Enhanced Oil Recovery

This study explored the potential application of xanthan gum as a polymer-flooding agent for oil recovery applications in a specific Devonian oil field. Rheological measurements using oscillatory and steady shear were carried out to examine the change in shear viscosity when the polymer was applied under reservoir conditions. The xanthan rheological properties were described by the Herschel–Bulkley and Ostwald models to characterize its non-Newtonian behavior. As expected, the results showed that higher xanthan concentrations raised the polymer viscosity and increased the degree of shear thinning. Addition of alkalis caused the viscosity of the xanthan solutions to decrease, but they maintained their shear-thinning properties. Polymer solutions in typical oil field brine increased in viscosity by ca. 400% for 720 hours storage time. On the other hand, as expected, the solutions lost their viscosity gradually with increasing temperature. However, at reservoir temperature (68°C), the polymer solutions kept more than 60% of their initial viscosity. In oscillatory deformation tests it was observed that all the measured viscoelastic properties were influenced by temperature and confirmed that xanthan solution behaved as a weak-gel. An order-disorder transition exists within the xanthan-brine solutions which responds to changes in solution concentration, temperature and alkalis.     

高温金属熔体黏度突变探索

高温金属熔体的黏度是衡量液态金属动力学性质的一个重要指标,是高温金属熔体的基本物理性能之一.熔体的黏度在表征脆性系数、金属玻璃形成能力的大小和液-液相变现象方面起关键性作用.本文在介绍高温金属熔体黏度测量方法的基础上,综合评述了单质、二元和多元合金黏度随温度的变化规律和黏度突变特征,分析了黏度突变研究的物理意义,并指出高温金属熔体黏度今后研究的发展方向。     

半经验反演方法计算两个二元气体混合物的粘度和扩散系数

利用粘度碰撞积分方程的直接反演方法计算了两个二元气体混合体系即苯-甲醇和甲烷-四氟甲烷的低密度势能．另外利用动力学理论以及对应态原理计算了两种体系不同温度和不同比例的粘度系数和扩散系数．计算结果和实验数据具有较好的一致性.     

Energetics of Brownian motors: a review

We review the literature on the energetics of Brownian motors, distinguishing between forced ratchets, chemical motors – driven out of equilibrium by differences of chemical potential, and thermal motors – driven by temperature differences. The discussion is focused on the definition of efficiency and the compatibility between the models and the laws of thermodynamics. Received: 13 November 2001 / Accepted: 10 January 2002 / Published online: 22 April 2002     

Topology and numerical simulation of phase separation in sodium silicate glasses

Liquid/liquid phase separation in glasses may lead to heterogeneities in the nanometer scale. The droplet phase can be nucleated from a homogeneous liquid. The chemical composition of the nanoscale phase separation changes with temperature in contrast to the nanocrystallization. The understanding of topological changes in the glass networks is of importance for the changes in viscosity and the microscopic changes in the growth rate during the course of the phase separation process. This work considers a glass system in which one of the separated phases is much more rigid than the other and the formed new phase possesses a lower viscosity in comparison to the matrix phase. The chemical composition of the matrix changes only in a thin layer around the growing droplets. A shell with increased rigidity is formed which decelerates the growth by encapsulation.     

Thermodynamics and bulk viscosity of approximate black hole duals to finite temperature quantum chromodynamics

We consider classes of translationally invariant black hole solutions whose equations of state closely resemble that of QCD at zero chemical potential. We use these backgrounds to compute the ratio zeta/s of bulk viscosity to entropy density. For a class of black holes that exhibits a first-order transition, we observe a sharp rise in zeta/s near Tc. For constructions that exhibit a smooth crossover, like QCD does, the rise in zeta/s is more modest. We conjecture that divergences in zeta/s for black hole horizons are related to extrema of the entropy density as a function of temperature.     

惰性气体黏度的剩余熵标度模型

黏度是能源、动力、化工等系统设计分析中常用的重要物性参数.本文探讨了5种惰性气体(He、Ne、Ar、Kr、Xe)气相和超临界黏度的计算,以实际气体与同温度稀薄气体的黏度之比作为无量纲对比黏度,发现5种惰性气体的无量纲对比黏度与剩余熵之间满足同一单值函数关系,据此建立了惰性气体的气相和超临界黏度模型,其中稀薄气体黏度关联...     

金属玻璃Ni30Zr70的动态粘度和稳态粘度

本文测量了金属玻璃Ni₃₀Zr₇₀的动态粘度和稳态粘度,结果表明,由于结构弛豫的影响,动态粘度随升温速率的减小而线性增加,在玻璃转变温度T_g以下,动态粘度与温度的关系可以用Arrhenius方程进行描述,稳态粘度与温度的依赖关系满足Fulcher-Vogel方程。从4种不同升温速率的高温(结晶开始温度T_x)动态粘度值,给出金属玻璃Ni₃₀Zr₇₀的平衡粘度。在630—670K