A classical dynamics study of rotational relaxation in nitrogen gas

A.F. Turfa, H.F.P. Knaap, B.J. Thijsse and J.J.M. Beenakker

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1982, vol. 112, issue 1, 18-28

Abstract: Rotational relaxation, related to the experimentally accessible volume viscosity, is described to the first order in the Sonine polynomial expansion of nonequilibrium distribution functions by the well known Wang Chang, Uhlenbeck, and De Boer expression. By a classical trajectory evaluation of a classical limit of this expression, using a recently proposed anisotropic inter-molecular potential for N2-N2, results are obtained for the rotational relaxation cross section. A corresponding expression including second order Sonine terms is also investigated. The second order results are found to differ significantly from the first order treatment (by about 18% at room temperature) and to agree very well with ultrasonic measurements over a temperature range from 77 K to 293 K.

Date: 1982
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DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(82)90205-9

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