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The application of a temperature gradient along a fluid-solid interface generates stresses in the fluid causing “thermo-osmotic” flow. Much of the understanding of this phenomenon is based on Derjaguin's work relating thermo-osmotic flows to the mechano-caloric effect, namely, the interfacial heat flow induced by a pressure gradient. This is done by using Onsager's reciprocity relationship for the equivalence of the thermo-osmotic and mechano-caloric cross-term transport coefficients. Both Derjaguin theory and Onsager framework for out-of-equilibrium systems are formulated in macroscopic thermodynamics terms and lack a clear interpretation at the molecular level. Here, we use statistical-mechanical tools to derive expressions for the transport cross-coefficients and, thereby, to directly demonstrate their equality. This is done for two basic models: i) an incopressible continuum solvent containing non-interacting solute particles, and ii) a single-component fluid without thermal expansivity. The derivation of the mechano-caloric coefficient appears to be remarkably simple, and provides a simple interpretation for the connection between interfacial heat and particle fluxes. We use this interpretation to consider yet another example, which is an electrolyte interacting with a uniformly charged surface in the strong screening (Debye-Hückel) regime.
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Farago, O. A simple statistical-mechanical interpretation of Onsager reciprocal relations and Derjaguin theory of thermo-osmosis. Eur. Phys. J. E 42, 136 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1140/epje/i2019-11898-3
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