On the Pressure Dependence of the Transport Properties of Dilute Polyatomic Gases

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Abstract
It is shown that the transport coefficients of dilute polyatomic gases in the ordinary Navier-Stokes regime contain an extra pressure dependence when the internal state Hamiltonian does not commute with the nonequilibrium distribution function-density matrix for the gas. As a specific example, the pressure dependence of the shear viscosity of a gas of paramagnetic 2Σ molecules is considered. Furthermore, the pressure dependence of the Senftleben and Senftleben-Beenakker effects is discussed and examples are given of the different types of molecules for which pressure dependence in the field-free as well as in the field-dependent transport coefficients may be expected.

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