Fluctuations and transport in an electric field

It is shown that thermodynamic fluctuations in a liquid in an applied electric field generate microconvective motion causing mass and heat dispersion. The corresponding dispersion coefficients can be comparable in value or even exceed the coefficients of molecular diffusion and thermal conductivity.Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 46, No. 3, pp. 398–405, March, 1984.