Hydrodynamic Correlation Functions for Binary Mixtures

Abstract

Correlation functions of various local thermodynamic variables of binary mixtures are obtained from the linearized hydrodynamic equations following the method of Mountain and Deutch. “Non-Lorentzian” parts of the time Fourier transformed correlation functions which have not been included by these authors are obtained here and their effect on the light scattering spectrum considered. An extension of the treatment by Fox and Uhlenbeck of Landau and Lifshitz hydrodynamical fluctuation theory to binary mixtures has been accomplished and correlation functions of the "fluctuating forces" are obtained for this case.