Expansion of monatomic and diatomic gases from a spherical source into a vacuum in a gravitational field

DOI10.1134/S0015462813020117zbMath1269.76095MaRDI QIDQ359309

Mohammad Hasan, M. Dambrine

Publication date: 9 August 2013

Published in: Fluid Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

gravitation; diatomic gas; escape flux; expansion into a vacuum; spherical source; thermal escape

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76M35: Stochastic analysis applied to problems in fluid mechanics

76N15: Gas dynamics (general theory)

82B40: Kinetic theory of gases in equilibrium statistical mechanics