Rarefied Gas Dynamics: Fundamentals, Simulations and Micro Flows

✍ Scribed by Prof. Ching Shen (auth.), Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dieter Mewes, Prof. em. Dr.-Ing. E.h. Franz Mayinger (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 420
• Series: Heat and Mass Transfer
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book elucidates the methods of molecular gas dynamics or rarefied gas dynamics which treat the problems of gas flows when the discrete molecular effects of the gas prevail under the circumstances of low density, the emphases being stressed on the basis of the methods, the direct simulation Monte Carlo method applied to the simulation of non-equilibrium effects and the frontier subjects related to low speed microscale rarefied gas flows. It provides a solid basis for the study of molecular gas dynamics for senior students and graduates in the aerospace and mechanical engineering departments of universities and colleges. It gives a general acquaintance of modern developments of rarefied gas dynamics in various regimes and leads to the frontier topics of non-equilibrium rarefied gas dynamics and low speed microscale gas dynamics. It will be also of benefit to the scientific and technical researchers engaged in aerospace high altitude aerodynamic force and heating design and in the research on gas flow in MEMS.

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction....Pages 1-19
Molecular Structure and Energy States....Pages 21-50
Some Basic Concepts of Kinetic Theory....Pages 51-129
Interaction of Molecules with Solid Surface....Pages 131-158
Free Molecular Flow....Pages 159-190
Continuum Models....Pages 191-230
Transitional Regime....Pages 231-273
Direct Simulation Monte-Carlo (DSMC) Method....Pages 275-315
Microscale Slow Gas Flows, IP Method....Pages 317-365

✦ Subjects

Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer;Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering;Nanotechnology;Mechanics, Fluids, Thermodynamics;Engineering Fluid Dynamics