Water: Thermodynamic and Dynamic Anomalies
- Instituto de Fisica, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre (Brazil)
While the majority of fluids contract upon cooling, water expands when cooled below T = 4 deg. C at atmospheric pressure. This effect is called density anomaly. Besides the density anomaly, there are more than 60 other anomalies known for water. Diffusivity is one of them. For normal liquids the diffusion coefficient decreases under compression. However, experimental results have shown that for water at temperatures below approximately 10 deg. C, the diffusion coefficient increases under compression and has a maximum. The temperature of maximum density line, inside which the density anomaly occurs, and the line of maximum in diffusivity are located in the same region of the pressure-temperature phase diagram of water. We show how simulations for water also show thermodynamic and dynamic anomalies. These anomalies are then demonstrated to be related to two length scales effective potential.
- OSTI ID:
- 21301115
- Journal Information:
- AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1119, Issue 1; Conference: 3. IUPAP international conference on women in physics, Seoul (Korea, Republic of), 8-10 Oct 2008; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.3137786; (c) 2009 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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