Unsteady expansion of an ideal gas into a vacuum

DOI10.1017/S0022112090000209zbMath0698.76082OpenAlexW2161108926MaRDI QIDQ3476491

D. M. Moody

Publication date: 1990

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112090000209

zbMATH Keywords

continuum expansionfree-molecular expansionfree-molecular limitone-dimensional planar and spherical geometriesunsteady expansion of an ideal gas

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gas dynamics (general theory) (76N15)

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• On the expansion of a gas into vacuum
• Some classes of exact solutions of the nonlinear Boltzmann equation
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