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Macroscopic properties of a dilute gas or gas mixture that govern the process of relaxation to equilibrium from a state perturbed by application of temperature, pressure, velocity or composition gradients have been studied for 120 years. The present paper reviews the current status of our abilities to measure, calculate and interpret these traditional properties and considers what the next steps in the development of the field might be. It is argued that if such transport properties are to form an important element in the elucidation of intermolecular forces for polyatomic systems, as they did for monatomic systems, then there is a need for further measurements of familiar properties and for the development of techniques of measuring less familiar, but no less traditional, properties. In addition, it remains necessary to reduce further the computational time required for the evaluation of the properties from assumed intermolecular potentials.
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Wakeham, W.A., Vesovic, V. (1992). Traditional Transport Properties. In: Wakeham, W.A., Dickinson, A.S., McCourt, F.R.W., Vesovic, V. (eds) Status and Future Developments in the Study of Transport Properties. NATO ASI Series, vol 361. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3076-1_2
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