Viscosity of fluid nitrogen to pressures of 10 GPa.

Abstract

Shear viscosities of supercritical nitrogen have been measured in the high-pressure diamond-anvil cell, to 673 K and pressures in excess of 10 GPa, using a rolling-sphere technique. The entire set of data, along with lower pressure data from the literature, can be fit to a two-parameter expression in reduced viscosity and reduced residual entropy. The fit spans densities from the dilute gas to 5x the critical density, and two orders magnitude in temperature and in viscosity, with a maximum deviation of 20%. Reduced viscosities scale as ρ(4)/T and comport with the theory of state "isomorphs" for "Roskilde-simple" systems. The new data allow direct comparison with results of molecular dynamic simulations at high densities.