Korteweg (1901)

• treated liquid/vapor interface as a continuum

• used Navier-Stokes equations plus tensor depending on density derivatives

• for miscible liquid, diffusion is slow enough that “a provisional equilibrium” could exist (everything in equilibrium except diffusion)

  • i.e., no buoyancy

• fluids would act like immiscible fluids

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