diff --git a/Cantera/src/transport/SimpleTransport.h b/Cantera/src/transport/SimpleTransport.h index b82d6120b..2d7c2734d 100644 --- a/Cantera/src/transport/SimpleTransport.h +++ b/Cantera/src/transport/SimpleTransport.h @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ namespace Cantera { class LiquidTransportParams; - //! Class LiquidTransport implements mixture-averaged transport + //! Class SimpleTransport implements mixture-averaged transport //! properties for liquid phases. /*! * The model is based on that @@ -116,8 +116,46 @@ namespace Cantera { * * The viscosity calculation may be broken down into two parts. * In the first part, the viscosity of the pure species are calculated - * In the second part, a mixing rule is applied, based on the - * Wilkes correlation, to yield the mixture viscosity. + * In the second part, a mixing rule is applied. There are two mixing rules. + * Solvent-only and mixture-averaged. + * + * For the solvent-only mixing rule, we use the pure species viscosity calculated for + * the solvent as the viscosity of the entire mixture. For the mixture averaged rule + * we do a mole fraction based average of the pure species viscosities: + * + * Solvent-only: + * \f[ + * \mu = \mu_0 + * \f] + * Mixture-average: + * \f[ + * \mu = \sum_k {\mu_k X_k} + * \f] + * + * + *

Calculate of the Binary Diffusion Coefficients

+ * + * The binary diffusion coefficients are obtained from the pure species diffusion coefficients + * using an additive process + * + * \f[ + * D_{i,j} = \frac{1}{2} \left( D^0_i(T) + D^0_j(T) \right) + * \f] + * + * + * + * + *

Electrical Mobilities

+ * + * The mobility \f$ \mu^e_k \f$ is calculated from the diffusion coefficient using the Einstein relation. + * + * \f[ + * \mu^e_k = \frac{F D_k}{R T} + * \f] + * + * The diffusion coefficients, \f$ D_k \f$ , is calculated from a call to the mixture diffusion + * coefficient routine. + * * * @ingroup tranprops *