A quantum mechanical model of the Bloch NMR flow equations for electron dynamics in fluids at the molecular level

Understanding of processes such as carrier mobility, electron transfer reactions, chemical reactions in fluids, electron solvation in fluids and electron attachment and localization in clusters relies crucially on the understanding of electron dynamics in fluids at the molecular level. Because of its very small mass, an electron is a quantum object and some of its properties such as diffusion coefficient of a solvated electron in water can be explained only by resorting to quantum mechanical formulation. In this study, we have solved the Bloch NMR flow equations to describe the evolution of the wavelike properties and find the wave functions which can be useful to solve a particular fluid flow problem quantum mechanically. Based on the uncertainty principle, a wave packet is assumed to initially describe the fluid particle (electron) under study. Then, when the particle encounters a force (so its potential energy is no longer zero), the force modifies the wave packet. Finding such propagation techniques, and applying them appropriately can provide useful techniques to find solutions to biological, medical and physical problems which otherwise could not be easily solved.

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