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Transport Cross Sections: Classical and Quantum Approaches

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The heart of the Chapman–Enskog theory lies on some assumptions on the nature of elementary collisions, which are postulated to be binary, elastic, characterized by isotropic interparticle force field, and adequately described through classical mechanics.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Traditionally the orders (1,1) and (2,2) are defined as diffusion-type and viscosity-type collision integrals, respectively, due to a direct dependence of binary diffusion and viscosity coefficients from the Ω (1, 1) and Ω (2, 2) values, when calculated in the first Chapman–Enskog approximation.

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    Database is available on-line at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) website http://webbook.nist.gov/chemistry/

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