A kinetic transport and reaction model and simulator for rarefied gas flow in the transition regime

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 213, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 591-612

  Gobbert, Matthias K ^a   Cale, Timothy S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Boltzmann transport equation; Chemical vapor deposition; Discontinuous Galerkin method; Rarefied gas flow; Spectral Galerkin method

Indexed keywords

BOLTZMANN EQUATION; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; FLOW OF GASES; GALERKIN METHODS; GASES; NUMERICAL METHODS;

BOLTZMANN'S TRANSPORT EQUATIONS; CHEMICAL VAPOUR DEPOSITION; DISCONTINOUS GALERKIN METHODS; KINETIC REACTION MODELS; KINETIC TRANSPORT MODELS; LINEAR BOLTZMANN EQUATION; RAREFIED GAS FLOW; REACTIVE SPECIES; SPECTRAL GALERKIN METHOD; TRANSITION REGIMES;

KINETICS;

EID: 32644452082     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2005.08.026     Document Type: Article

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