Evaluation of macroscopic properties in the direct simulation Monte Carlo method

Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 329-335

  Sun, Quanhua ^a,b   Boyd, Iain D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Department of Aerospace Engineering ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION THEORY; ERROR ANALYSIS; GAS DYNAMICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBLEM SOLVING; RELAXATION PROCESSES; STATISTICAL METHODS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; MACROSCOPIC PROPERTIES; SUBRELAXATION TECHNIQUES;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

HEAT TRANSFER;

EID: 23244446000     PISSN: 08878722     EISSN: 15336808     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.12542     Document Type: Article

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