Spinning rough disc moving in a rarefied medium

DOI10.1098/RSPA.2009.0518zbMATH Open1253.76115arXiv0804.2868OpenAlexW2038081132WikidataQ57677655 ScholiaQ57677655MaRDI QIDQ3569348FDOQ3569348

Authors: Alexander Plakhov, Tatiana V. Tchemisova, Paulo D. F. Gouveia 

Publication date: 18 June 2010

Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A spinning rough disk moves through a rarefied medium on the plane. The roughness is formed by small cavities on the disk boundary. The medium is so rare that mutual interaction of particles can be neglected. All collisions of particles with the disk are perfectly elastic; there may happen multiple collisions in the cavities. We calculate the force of resistance acting on the body and examine how it depends on the kind of roughness (shape of the cavities). We show that the nonzero transversal component of the force generally appears, resulting in deflection of the disk trajectory. In several simple cases the trajectory is determined. We compare our results with the ones known in the literature. It is known that there is a transversal force acting on a spinning body (most often a sphere or a cylinder) moving in a rarefied gas, due to nonelastic interaction of gas particles with the body. We propose another mechanism of creating the transversal force, resulting from multiple reflections of particles from the body.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0804.2868

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zbMATH Keywords

billiardsoptimal mass transportrough surfacefree molecular flowinverse Magnus effect

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kinetic theory of gases in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C40) Dynamical systems in fluid mechanics, oceanography and meteorology (37N10) Rarefied gas flows, Boltzmann equation in fluid mechanics (76P05) General aerodynamics and subsonic flows (76G25)

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