I have been thinking for a while and I think it should because heat conduction is also described as heat diffusion.
Can someone please try a simple experiment to check this? Rotate anything, preferably a gas, and check if the radial heat conductivity decreases. David On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 4:56 PM, David Jonsson <davidjonssonswe...@gmail.com>wrote: > Taylor diffusion means that diffusion is affected by Coriolis forces and > thus moves in circles and effectively reduces radial diffusion in rotation > fluids. Do not mistake this for Taylor dispersion which is an effect > which increases diffusion. > > Since heat flow is a kind of diffused heat I wonder if it also is affected > by Taylor diffusion. The heat motion is definitely affected > by Coriolis forces. > > How could this be analyzed? > > It seems to have some strange consequences in regard to entropy. It seems > like entropy doesn't increase as much when rotating but that seems also > versy counterintuitive and it seems like a too easy trick to lower increase > of entropy. Common reasoning implies that the process is requiring energy > which is usually the case to lower entropy increase. > > Help me solve this. I have always found entropy to be a strange and weak > concept. Or maybe the total entropy changes Taylor diffusion and Taylor > dispersion balances each other? > > David > > David Jonsson, Sweden, phone callto:+46703000370 > >
