TY - THES A1 - Hartung, Marianne T1 - A Detailed Treatment of the Measurement of Transport Coefficients in Transient Grating Experiments T1 - Über die Messung von Transportkoeffizienten in transienten Gitterexperimenten N2 - This thesis treats the measurement of transport coefficients in transient grating experiments and is organized into 3 parts. Part 1 provides a brief review of the thermodynamic-phenomenological theory relevant for a correct description of the Soret effect. It comprises the formulation of the first law in open systems, the calculation of the entropy production, and the derivation of the phenomenological equations. This part is based on the books by de Groot and Mazur and by Haase and contains also some own results. We have explicitely derived a relation between reversible work and dissipation function, if heat and mass are exchanged reversibly and irreversibly between the two homogenous phases of a non-isothermal heterogenous system. Moreover we have discussed in detail, whether Onsager coefficients are invariant against shifts of enthalpy or entropy zero. Furthermore some comments on recent literature work have been made, since thermodynamic principles are not always correctly incorporated. In parts 2 and 3 we have treated the measurement of heat, mass and thermal diffusion in transient grating experiments. In part 2 we have presented a two-dimensional model to account for the role of heat conducting walls in the measurement of heat transport and Soret effect driven mass transport in transient holographic grating experiments. Heat diffusion into the walls leads to non-exponential decay of the temperature grating. Under certain experimental conditions it can be approximated by an exponential function and assigned an apparent thermal diffusivity D_{th,app}