Anisotropic Transport Processes in Highly Polarizable Fluids. I. Nondeforming Media

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Abstract
Induced anisotropies in the transport coefficients of highly polarizable fluids are studied. It is predicted that such anisotropy is a linear function of the inverse of either the square of the applied field strength or the size of the apparatus. Comparisons with several experiments on mass diffusion, heat conduction, and electromagnetic polarizations in nematic liquid crystals show good agreement. It is also predicted that a field applied to a very thin sample will have no effect on the transport coefficients of the system unless the field strength is larger than a critical value. Also described is an extrapolation method with which one may obtain the principal as well as the isotropic values of the transport coefficients from experimental data.