A study of transport of mass and energy through inert liquids

The transport of mass and heat through inert liquids have been studied using statistical methods, Relations have been deduced for the self diffusion coefficient D and the coefficient of thermal conductivity lambda. These relations illustrate clearly the dependence of D and lambda on various bulk physical parameters such as pressure; volume, temperature and the internal parameter viz. intermolecular potential energy. In the present work dependence of D and lambda on temperature has been studied for argon and neon; Calculated values are in good agreement with the reported experimental data over a wide range of temperatures (0.5 T-c to 0.9 T-c).