Monte Carlo analysis of macroscopic fluctuations in a rarefied hypersonic flow around a cylinder

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1226-1239

  Stefanov, Stefan K ^a   Boyd, Iain D ^b   Cai, Chun Pei ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MECHANICS   (Bulgaria)

^b School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYLINDER; FLOW AROUND OBJECT; HYPERSONIC FLOW; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; RAREFIED GAS;

EID: 0034041586     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.870372     Document Type: Article

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