Thermodiffusion phenomena.

Pierre Costesèque (1) , Abdelkader Mojtabi (1) , Jean Karl Platten (2)

1 IMFT - Institut de mécanique des fluides de Toulouse
2 UMons - Université de Mons

The aim of this article is to present briefly a summary of the state of art in theoretical, experimental and numerical approaches in thermodiffusion. The concepts and equations giving the mass flux of constituents in binary, ternary and multicomponent mixtures are presented.

Mots clés: Convection; Thermodiffusion; Thermogravitation; Soret effect; Species separation

Domaines: Mécanique des fluides [physics.class-ph]

Pierre Costesèque, Abdelkader Mojtabi, Jean Karl Platten. Thermodiffusion phenomena.. Comptes Rendus. Mécanique, 2011, 339 (5), pp.275-279. ⟨10.1016/j.crme.2011.03.001⟩. ⟨hal-03537432⟩