Malgaretti, Paolo;
Bafile, Ubaldo;
Vallauri, Renzo;
Jedlovszky, Pál;
Sega, Marcello;
(2023)
Surface viscosity in simple liquids.
The Journal of Chemical Physics
, 158
(11)
, Article 114705. 10.1063/5.0141971.
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Abstract
The response of Newtonian liquids to small perturbations is usually considered to be fully described by homogeneous transport coefficients like shear and dilatational viscosity. However, the presence of strong density gradients at the liquid/vapor boundary of fluids hints at the possible existence of an inhomogeneous viscosity. Here, we show that a surface viscosity emerges from the collective dynamics of interfacial layers in molecular simulations of simple liquids. We estimate the surface viscosity to be 8-16 times smaller than that of the bulk fluid at the thermodynamic point considered. This result can have important implications for reactions at liquid surfaces in atmospheric chemistry and catalysis.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Surface viscosity in simple liquids |
| Location: | United States |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1063/5.0141971 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0141971 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2023 Author(s). All article content, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Chemical Engineering |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10167398 |
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