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Old   July 20, 2017, 04:38
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Hi

Why, when fick's law expressed in mass fractions, the total mixture density isn't inside the gradiet: J=-\rhoD\nabla\omega_{i}?

I'm confused because the concentration of the component with the mixture is C_{i}=\rho\omega_{i}
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