Molecular Gas Dynamics: Theory, Techniques, and Applications

✍ Scribed by Yoshio Sone (eds.)

• Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 666
• Series: Modeling and Simulation in Science, Engineering and Technology
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This self-contained work is an up-to-date treatment of the basic theory of molecular gas dynamics and its various applications. Recent progress in the field has greatly enhanced the original theory and stimulated interesting and critical gas dynamic phenomena and problems. This book, unique in the literature, presents working knowledge, theory, techniques, and typical phenomena in rarefied gases for theoretical development and applications.

Basic theory is developed in a systematic way and presented in a form easily applied to practical use. After presenting basic theory and various simple flows, such as unidirectional or quasi-unidirectional flows and flows around a sphere, the author discusses additional topics, including flows induced by temperature fields, which are typical in rarefied gases; flows with evaporation and condensation; and bifurcation of flows in rarefied gases. The appendix contains many useful fundamental formulae, as well as an explanation of the theoretical background for the direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method, easily accessible to nonmathematicians and not found elsewhere in the literature.

Existence of the ghost effect has made molecular gas dynamics indispensable to the study of a gas in the continuum limit, traditionally treated by classical fluid dynamics. In this book, the ghost and non-Navier–Stokes effects are demonstrated for typical examples—such as Bénard and Taylor–Couette problems—in the context of a new framework. An infinitesimal curvature effect is also discussed, with a long-standing problem of the bifurcation of the plane Couette flow worked out as an example.

Molecular Gas Dynamics is useful for those working in different communities where kinetic theory or fluid dynamics is important: graduate students, researchers, and practitioners in theoretical physics, applied mathematics, and various branches of engineering. The work may be used as a self-study reference or as a textbook in graduate-level courses on fluid dynamics, gas dynamics, kinetic theory, molecular or rarefied gas dynamics, microflows, and applied mathematics.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Boltzmann Equation....Pages 1-27
Highly Rarefied Gas: Free Molecular Gas and Its Correction....Pages 29-72
Slightly Rarefied Gas: Asymptotic Theory of the Boltzmann System for Small Knudsen Numbers....Pages 73-167
Simple Flows....Pages 169-232
Flows Induced by Temperature Fields....Pages 233-280
Flows with Evaporation and Condensation....Pages 281-354
Bifurcation in the Half-Space Problem of Evaporation and Condensation....Pages 355-378
Ghost Effect and Bifurcation I: Bénard and Taylor-Couette Problems....Pages 379-448
Ghost Effect and Bifurcation II: Ghost Effect of Infinitesimal Curvature and Bifurcation of the Plane Couette Flow....Pages 449-480
Back Matter....Pages 481-658

✦ Subjects

Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics;Engineering Fluid Dynamics;Gases;Mathematical Methods in Physics;Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis;Partial Differential Equations