Colloquium

Title: Onsager Principle in Soft Matter Dynamics

Speaker:  Masao Doi, Beihang University

Location: Room 111, Physics Building

Time: 15:00-16:00, Wed, Nov 5, 2014
 

Abstract:
In the celebrated paper on the reciprocal relation for the kinetic coefficients in irreversible processes, Onsager extended Rayleigh's principle of the least energy dissipation to general irreversible processes.  In this presentation, I shall show that this principle is very convenient in discussing the non-linear and non-equilibrium phenomena in soft matter. As an example, I shall discuss the flow of colloidal suspensions and deformation of gels driven by chemical potential gradient of solvent.

REFERENCES
1.  Masao Doi, Soft Matter Physics, Oxford University Press, 2013
2.  Masao Doi, Onsager's variational principle in soft matter dynamics, in Non-Equilibrium Soft Matter Physics ed S. Komura and T. Ohta, World Scientific p 1-35 (2012)