Physics – Condensed Matter – Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Scientific paper
2010-05-06
J. Mech. Phys. Solids 58 (2010) 1302-1317
Physics
Condensed Matter
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
32 pages, 11 figures
Scientific paper
10.1016/j.jmps.2010.06.002
We present heterodyne detected transient grating measurements on water filled Vycor 7930 in the range of temperature 20 - 90 degrees C. This experimental investigation enables to measure the acoustic propagation, the average density variation due the liquid flow and the thermal diffusion in this water filled nano-porous material. The data have been analyzed with the model of Pecker and Deresiewicz which is an extension of Biot model to account for the thermal effects. In the whole temperature range the data are qualitatively described by this hydrodynamic model that enables a meaningful insight of the different dynamic phenomena. The data analysis proves that the signal in the intermediate and long time-scale can be mainly addressed to the water dynamics inside the pores. We proved the existence of a peculiar interplay between the mass and the heat transport that produces a flow and back-flow process inside the nano-pores. During this process the solid and liquid dynamics have opposite phase as predicted by the Biot theory for the slow diffusive wave. Nevertheless, our experimental results confirm that transport of elastic energy (i.e. acoustic propagation), heat (i.e. thermal diffusion) and mass (i.e. liquid flow) in a liquid filled porous glass can be described according to hydrodynamic laws in spite of nanometric dimension of the pores. The data fitting, based on the hydrodynamic model, enables the extraction of several parameters of the water-Vycor system, even if some discrepancies appear when they are compared with values reported in the literature.
Bartolini P.
Cucini R.
Taschin A.
Torre Riccardo
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