Rarefied background flow in a vacuum chamber equipped with one-sided pumps

Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 524-535

  Cai, Chunpei ^a,b,c   Boyd, Iain D ^a,b,c   Sun, Quanhua ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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

^c AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW PATTERNS; MACHINE DESIGN; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION; VACUUM APPLICATIONS;

BACKGROUND PRESSURE; FLOW VELOCITIES; MAXWELLIAN VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION; VACUUM CHAMBERS;

SPACECRAFT PROPULSION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW PATTERNS; MACHINE DESIGN; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION; SPACECRAFT PROPULSION; VACUUM APPLICATIONS;

EID: 33747042835     PISSN: 08878722     EISSN: 15336808     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.19178     Document Type: Article

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