On some hydrodynamic and optical properties of a fluctuating fluid surface
Abstract
The properties of a liquid-vapor interface are studied. The application of the thermodynamics of irreversible processes to a system with surface densities and fluxes in an external gravitational potential is derived, and the equilibrium fluctuations at the interface are described. The fluctuation-dissipation theorem for the surface is formulated. The ellipsometric coefficient for a noncontaminated fluid-fluid interface is calculated in terms of the interfacial position autocorrelation function. Formulas for the constitutive coefficients are derived, and the resulting reflection and transmission amplitudes are given. The results are compared with expressions obtained using the average dielectric constant profile. The application of these results to the cyclohexane-aniline binary mixture is studied.
- Publication:
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Ph.D. Thesis
- Pub Date:
- 1983
- Bibcode:
- 1983PhDT.........3Z
- Keywords:
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- Fluctuation Theory;
- Fluid Boundaries;
- Hydrodynamic Equations;
- Liquid Surfaces;
- Liquid-Vapor Interfaces;
- Optical Properties;
- Aniline;
- Computational Fluid Dynamics;
- Conservation Laws;
- Constitutive Equations;
- Cyclohexane;
- Electrical Properties;
- Ellipsometers;
- Magnetic Properties;
- Permittivity;
- Polarization (Charge Separation);
- Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer