Sutherland's law
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In 1893 William Sutherland, an Australian physicist, published a relationship between the absolute temperature, , of an ideal gas and its dynamic visocity, , based on the kinetic theory of ideal gases and an idealized intermolecular-force potential. This formula, often called Sutherland's law, is still commonly used and most often gives fairly accurate results with an error less than a few percent over a wide range of temperatures (up to several thousand degrees depending on the gas). Sutherland's law can be expressed as:
Some authors instead express Sutherland's law in the following form:
Comparing the formulas above the constant can be written as:
References
- Sutherland, W. (1893), "The viscosity of gases and molecular force", Philosophical Magazine, S. 5, 36, pp. 507-531 (1893).