Physics
Scientific paper
Aug 1980
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1980rspsa.372..275l&link_type=abstract
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Volume 372, Issue 1749, pp. 275-295
Physics
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Scientific paper
The thermally induced fluctuations in vertical displacement at the surface of a semi-infinite simple fluid are considered, and the wavevector and frequency dependences of their power spectrum are obtained. The fluid is assumed to have non-zero surface tension, viscosities, compressibility and thermal conductivity, and the theory generalizes previous work that neglected the last two attributes. It is found that the thermal conductivity has a small effect for normal values of the fluid parameters, in contrast to its important role in the central peak of the bulk spectrum. The non-zero compressibility leads, however, to additional continua in the surface spectrum that correspond to the displaced acoustic-wave peaks in the bulk spectrum. Numerical results for liquid argon and mercury are presented.
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