Transport Properties of Polyatomic Fluids. II. A Dilute Gas of Spherocylinders

摘要

The Chapman—Enskog method is used to generate estimates for the transport coefficients of a dilute gas of rigid spherocylinders. Extensive tabulations are given of the coefficients of thermal conductivity and of shear and bulk viscosity. Our results clearly indicate that anisotropy of the molecular spin (angular momentum associated with molecular tumbling) field has little effect upon the numerical values of these coefficients.