Convective instabilities in rarefied gases by direct simulation Monte Carlo method

Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 250-256

  Golshtein, E ^a,b   Elperin, T ^a,b,c  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b Pearlstone Ctr for Aero Eng

^c Pearlstone Ctr for Aero Eng ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DATA PROCESSING; GASES; GEOMETRY; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; HIGH TEMPERATURE PROPERTIES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; STABILITY; THERMAL GRADIENTS; THERMAL STRESS;

BENARD INSTABILITY; BOUSSINESQ APPROXIMATION; CONVECTIVE INSTABILITIES; CURVILINEAR BOUNDARIES; RAREFIED GASES; RAYLEIGH NUMBER;

HEAT CONVECTION;

EID: 0030126913     PISSN: 08878722     EISSN: 15336808     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/3.782     Document Type: Article

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