One-way flow of a rarefied gas induced in a channel with a periodic temperature distribution

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 2227-2235

  Sone, Yoshio ^a   Waniguchi, Yorifumi ^a   Aoki, Kazuo ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNELS; RAREFIED GAS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 0030482751     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.869101     Document Type: Article

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