Inverted velocity profiles in rarefied cylindrical Couette gas flow and the impact of the accommodation coefficient

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2005, Pages

  Yuhong, Sun ^a   Barber, Robert W ^a   Emerson, David R ^a  

^a DARESBURY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; VELOCITY;

COUETTE FLOW; NONCONTINUUM REGIME; VELOCITY INVERSION; VELOCITY PROFILES;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

COUETTE FLOW; VELOCITY PROFILE;

EID: 17444411557     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1868034     Document Type: Article

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