Hydrodynamic Properties

The understanding of the transport properties of electrolyte solutions requires some basic knowledge on hydrodynamics. Without going into details chapter III gives a concise presentation of the necessary tools of this topic permitting to proceed to the applications of chapters IV to VII. The first part of this chapter is devoted to the basic principles of hydrodynamics, permitting in the second part the quantitative description of hydrodynamic interactions between moving particles in a fluid. Limitation is made to the level of the Navier-Stokes theory commonly used in the theory of electrolyte solutions.