Ein neues Verfahren zur Berechnung der Diffusionskoeffizienten in Multikomponentensystemen aus Meßdaten der quasistationären Diffusion / A new procedure for the determination of diffusion coefficients from quasi-stationary diffusion measurements in multicomponent systems
Abstract Diffusion in an (n+1) -component system is described by Onsager's flow equations the integration of which leads in the case of quasi-stationarity to the differential equations d(Δc)/dt=-βD̅Δ c (Δc: vector of concentration differences between the compartments of the cell, D̅: matrix of integral diffusion coefficients, β: apparatus constant). Several procedures are known to determine these diffusion coefficients from such equations but all of them have certain disadvantages. In this paper a new method is described to compute the integral diffusion coefficients, which starts from the associated equivalent system of integral equations. The mathematical formalism is simple, and its numerical performance does not become more difficult with an increasing number of components of the system.