Numerical analysis of a uniform flow of a rarefied gas past a sphere on the basis of the Boltzmann equation for hard-sphere molecules

DOI10.1063/1.858655zbMath0806.76081OpenAlexW2075866909MaRDI QIDQ4202855

Yoshio Sone, Kazuo Aoki, Shigeru Takata

Publication date: 16 February 1995

Published in: Physics of Fluids A: Fluid Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.858655

zbMATH Keywords

similarity solutioncollision integralnumerical kernel methodvelocity distribution functiondiffuse reflectionKnudsen layerlinearized Boltzmann equation\(S\) layer

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Integro-partial differential equations (45K05) Rarefied gas flows, Boltzmann equation in fluid mechanics (76P05) Numerical methods for integral equations, integral transforms (65R99)

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