Abstract
A calculation of the critical anomalies of the transport coefficients of a simple fluid based on a microscopic model of a nonequilibrium Van der Waals gas is presented. It is found that, in the gas region, the anomalous bulk viscosity behaves as (T – Tc)−2. Both the anomalous thermal conductivity and shear viscosity behave as In (T – Tc)−1, but the anomaly in the shear viscosity is much smaller than the anomaly in the thermal conductivity. The results appear to indicate that previous calculations, in which the time dependence of the critical fluctuations is obtained from hydrodynamic equations, are not valid.
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