RHEOLOGICAL AND THERMAL PROPERTIES
OF THE SURFACE LAYER OF LIQUIDS

B. D. Summ

UDC 532.64:541.1

A grid model of the surface liquid layer at the boundary with the 
gas and its rheological and thermophysical properties (temperature 
dependence of the surface tension and surface heat capacity) have 
been described. It has been obtained that the mole heat capacity of 
the surface layer is nearly the same (5.6 J/(mole(K)) for 
many liquid metals. It has been shown that for calculation of the 
rheological properties it is expedient to use the Kelvin model.

M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, GSP-3, Leninskie Gory, 
V-234, Moscow, 119899, Russia; email: summ@colloid.chem.mgu.ru. 
Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 78, No. 5, pp. 
160-163, September-October, 2005. Original article submitted 
November 17, 2004.