Fluid modeling for the knudsen compressor: Case of polyatomic gases

Kinetic and Related Models

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 353-372

  Takata, Shigeru ^a   Funagane, Hitoshi ^a   Aoki, Kazuo ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Boltzmann equation; Diffusion model; Kinetic theory of gases; Knudsen pump; Poiseuille flow; Thermal transpiration

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857545150     PISSN: 19375093     EISSN: 19375077     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/krm.2010.3.353     Document Type: Article

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