External Field Dependence of Transport Properties. II. Thermal Conduction in a Fluid of Loaded Spherocylinders

Abstract

Classical kinetic theory is used to determine the influence of a magnetic field upon thermal conduction in a gas of linear molecules. To account for the effects of inelastic collisions it is assumed that the molecules are rigid and smooth, loaded spherocylinders. The geometrical parameters which characterize the interactions between these particles are obtained from comparisons of experimental and theoretical values for certain properties of the thermal conductivity tensor. The agreement between theoretical and experimental values of the phenomenological coefficients $\mathrm{\lambda \Vert ,\; \lambda \perp ,}\mathrm{and}{\lambda }_{\mathrm{tr}}$ is quite satisfactory for N₂, CO, and NO, the three gases for which there are extensive experimental data.