Particle simulation of gas expansion and condensation in supersonic jets

37th AIAA Thermophysics Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Sun, Quanhua ^a   Boyd, Iain D ^a   Tatum, Kenneth E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b ARNOLD ENGINEERING DEVELOPMENT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONDENSATION; MILITARY AVIATION; NUCLEAR WEAPONS; PINCH EFFECT; SUPERSONIC AERODYNAMICS;

ARNOLD ENGINEERING DEVELOPMENT CENTER; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS ANALYSIS; DIRECT SIMULATION MONTE CARLO METHOD; DSMC SIMULATION; HOMOGENEOUS CONDENSATION; INFLOW BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; PARTICLE SIMULATIONS; SIMULATION DOMAIN;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 85087597637     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2004-2587     Document Type: Conference Paper

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