Accurate and efficient computation of the Boltzmann equation for Couette flow: influence of intermolecular potentials on Knudsen layer function and viscous slip coefficient

DOI10.1016/j.jcp.2018.11.015zbMath1454.76071MaRDI QIDQ2314330

Wei Su, Lei Wu, Haihu Liu, Peng Wang

Publication date: 22 July 2019

Published in: Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2018.11.015

zbMATH Keywords

gas-kinetic theory; Boltzmann equation; Knudsen layer; Kramer's problem; synthetic iteration scheme; viscous slip coefficient

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76P05: Rarefied gas flows, Boltzmann equation in fluid mechanics

76M28: Particle methods and lattice-gas methods

82C40: Kinetic theory of gases in time-dependent statistical mechanics