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Rayleigh-Brillouin scattering in SF in the kinetic regime

arXiv:1612.05146 · doi:10.1016/j.cplett.2016.12.033

Abstract

Rayleigh-Brillouin spectral profiles are measured with a laser-based scatterometry setup for a 90 degrees scattering angle at a high signal-to-noise ratio (r.m.s. noise below 0.15 \% w.r.t. peak intensity) in sulphur-hexafluoride gas for pressures in the range 0.2 -- 5 bar and for a wavelength of nm. The high quality data are compared to a number of light scattering models in order to address the effects of rotational and vibrational relaxation. While the vibrational relaxation rate is so slow that vibration degrees of freedom remain frozen, rotations relax on time scales comparable to those of the density fluctuations. Therefore, the heat capacity, the thermal conductivity and the bulk viscosity are all frequency-dependent transport coefficients. This is relevant for the Tenti model that depends on the values chosen for these transport coefficients. This is not the case for the other two models considered: a kinetic model based on rough-sphere interactions, and a model based on fluctuating hydrodynamics. The deviations with the experiment are similar between the three different models, except for the hydrodynamic model at pressures . As all models are in line with the ideal gas law, we hypothesize the presence of real gas effects in the measured spectra.

arXiv comment8 pages, 3 figures, Chemical Physics Letters 2017

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