Theoretical and numerical study of several free molecular flow problems

Collection of Technical Papers - 9th AIAA/ASME Joint Thermophysics and Heat Transfer Conference Proceedings

Volumn 4, Issue , 2006, Pages 2579-2611

  Cai, Chunpei ^a,b,c,d   Boyd, Iain D ^b,c,d  

^a ZONA TECHNOLOGY INC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c University of Michigan ^*

^d AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

EFFUSION FLOWS; FREE MOLECULAR FLOW PROBLEMS; NUMBER DENSITY; VELOCITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 33845535630     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2006-3800     Document Type: Conference Paper

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