On the geometry of radiative and thermally conducting gas flows (Q2265929)

The present work deals with the geometry of streamlines in radiative and thermally conducting gases. The authors are concerned with the determination of variation of flow quantities along streamlines, and their principal normals and binormals in such flows. They formulate the various dynamical and kinematical relations connecting the flow quantities with the geometrical parameters of streamline trajectories. The variation of pressure along the streamlines, their principal normals and binormals are obtained by establishing the relation for curvature and torsion of the streamlines in terms of velocity components, pressure, density, radiation and thermal conductivity. It turns out that the radiating character of the gas decreases the pressure gradient along the streamlines whereas the thermal conductivity increases it. Finally, vorticity components are found in terms of the curvature of the streamlines, their principal normals and binormals.