getMixtureMu

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The dynamic viscosity is calcaluted according to the Wilke equation (Jürgen Gmehling and Michael Kleiber and Bärbel Kolbe and Jürgen Rarey, 2019, p.119).

\begin{equation*}
{\overline \mu} = \sum_{i}^{N} \frac{x_{i} \, \mu_{i}}
{\sum\limits_{j}^{N} x_{i} \, \Phi_{ij}}
\end{equation*}

mit

\begin{equation*}
\Phi_{ij} = 
\frac{\left[ 1 + \sqrt{\frac{\mu_{i}}{\mu_{j}}} \, \left(
\frac{M_{i}}{M_{j}}\right)^{1/4} \right]^{2}}
{\sqrt{8 \, \left(1 + \frac{M_{i}}{M_{j}} \right)}}
\end{equation*}

Nomenclature

\(M_{i}\) molar mass of species Ai
\(\mu_{i}\) viscosity of species Ai
\(x_{i}\) mole fraction of species Ai

Bibliography

Jürgen Gmehling and Michael Kleiber and Bärbel Kolbe and Jürgen Rarey (2019). Chemical Thermodynamics for Process Simulation, Wiley-VCH.