Abstract
The extant experimental data for the n-alkanes (pentane-hexadecane) derived from ultrasonic absorption, Brillouin and Rayleigh light scattering, and low frequency shear viscosity measurements are analyzed in terms of a model which decomposes the frequency dependent shear and longitudinal viscosities into contributions arising from trans-gauche rotational isomerism, rotational reorientation, and structural relaxation. The results yield values of the transverse and longitudinal structural relaxation times, and indicate that there is a strong coupling of molecular reorientation to adiabatic compression as well as to shear, presumably because the existing orientational correlations between chains are perturbed by the temperature variations during adiabatic compression.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1298-1304 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | The Journal of Chemical Physics |
| Volume | 83 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| Publication status | Published - 1985 |
| Externally published | Yes |