Article
Brownian Motion in a Flowing Fluid Revisited
Physics of Fluids
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
6-1-1981
Subjects
- Brownian motion processes -- Mathematical models,
- Fluctuations (Physics),
- Fluid dynamics
Disciplines
Abstract
It is shown how the phenomenon of osmosis may be treated using the phenomenological theory of Brownian motion in a flowing fluid. The theory is also generalized to include viscous stresses in the particle and mixture momentum equations.
DOI
10.1063/1.863479
Persistent Identifier
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/7852
Citation Information
J.D. Ramshaw, "Brownian motion in a flowing fluid revisited," Phys. Fluids 24, 1210 (1981)
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