Higher-order continuum approximation for rarefied gases

DOI10.1063/1.1613280MaRDI QIDQ3554144zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Edward A. Spiegel, Jean-Luc Thiffeault

Publication date 22 April 2010

Published in Physics of Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0301021

zbMATH Keywords

iterative methodscomputational fluid dynamicsrarefied fluid dynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fluid mechanics (76-XX)

Abstract: The Hilbert-Chapman-Enskog expansion of the kinetic equations in mean flight times is believed to be asymptotic rather than convergent. It is therefore inadvisable to use lower order results to simplify the current approximation as is done in the traditional Chapman-Enskog procedure, since that is an iterative method. By avoiding such recycling of lower order results, one obtains macroscopic equations that are asymptotically equivalent to the ones found in the Chapman-Enskog approach. The new equations contain higher order terms that are discarded in the Chapman-Enskog method. These make a significant impact on the results for such problems as ultrasound propagation. In this paper, it is shown that these results turn out well with relatively little complication when the expansions are carried to second order in the mean free time, for the example of the relaxation or BGK model of kinetic theory.

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