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Nonequilibrium molecular dynamics calculations are used to show that polyatomic fluids can support antisymmetric stress. In a homogeneous system where the time dependence of vorticity is a step function, it is shown that the rate at which intrinsic angular velocity approaches its steady-state value (ω = 1/2▽ × u) is determined by the magnitude of the antisymmetric part of the pressure tensor.
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Evans, D.J. The nonsymmetric pressure tensor in polyatomic fluids. J Stat Phys 20, 547–555 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01012898
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