Calculations of the near-wall thermophoretic force in rarefied gas flow

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 4290-4301

  Gallis, M A ^a   Rader, D J ^a   Torczynski, J R ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GREEN'S FUNCTION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; THERMOPHORESIS;

MOLECULAR VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

GAS FLOW; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; RAREFIED GAS; VELOCITY;

EID: 0036948456     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1518692     Document Type: Article

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