Principal Investigator

D J Evans Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, RSC, ANU

Project Title

Strain Rate Dependence of Heat Transfer as Applied to Planar Poiseuille Flow

Brief Description for General Publications

Numerical simulations of fluids flowing through micropores have been carried out for various systems: atomic fluids, rigid molecules and molecular fluids. In order to achieve this the configurational temperature is used to measure and/or constrain the temperature. The configurational temperature is a new expression for the thermodynamic temperature that is obtained by performing a functional differentiation of the entropy of a microcanonical system with respect to the thermodynamic internal energy. The new temperature is entirely dependant on configurations and thereby circumvents difficulties in defining streaming velocities in complicated geometries.