Computations of high-speed, high Knudsen number microchannel flows

Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 497-505

  Oh, C K ^a,b,c   Oran, E S ^a,b,c   Sinkovits, R S ^a,b,d  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Lab Compl Phys and Fluid Dynam   (United States)

^c AIAA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW INTERACTIONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; OPTIMIZATION; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SHOCK WAVES; WALL FLOW;

DIRECT SIMULATION MONTE CARLO (DSMC) METHOD; KNUDSEN NUMBER; MACH NUMBER; MICROCHANNEL FLOWS; MONOTONIC LAGRANGIAN GRID (MLG) METHOD;

CHANNEL FLOW;

EID: 0031251490     PISSN: 08878722     EISSN: 15336808     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.6289     Document Type: Article

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