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The Mesoscopic Description of Pressure and Velocity Profiles Near Planar Wall in Water Solutions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2011

Anatol Brodsky
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
William P. Reinhardt
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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Abstract

The stress tensor for polar solutions is constructed starting from a nonlocal and nonlinear Landau free energy functional. Explanations of some puzzling properties of liquids near interfaces are proposed.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1995

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