(1) Departments of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Abstract:
A study is made of the coupling between chemical reaction and diffusion in a dense fluid. Our analysis utilizes the projection operator formalism and a generalized Langevin equation that is based on irreversible, phenomenological equations of motion instead of conventional Hamiltonian mechanics. It also is shown that this same non-Hamiltonian theory provides a simple way of deriving Kawasaki's mode-mode coupling theory of diffusion.This research was supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation.