Rarefied Gas Dynamics - Fundamentals, Simulations and Micro Flows

This book elucidates the methods of molecular gas dynamics or rarefied gas dynamics which treat the problems of gas flows when the discrete molecular effects of the gas prevail under the circumstances of low density, the emphasis being on the basis of the methods, the direct simulation Monte Carlo method applied to the simulation of non-equilibrium effects and the frontier subjects related to low speed microscale rarefied gas flows. It provides a solid basis for the study of molecular gas dynamics for senior students and graduates in the aerospace and mechanical engineering departments of universities and colleges. It gives a general acquaintance of modern developments of rarefied gas dynamics in various regimes and leads to the frontier topics of non-equilibrium rarefied gas dynamics and low speed microscale gas dynamics. It will be also of benefit to the scientific and technical researchers engaged in aerospace high altitude aerodynamic force and heating design and in the research on gas flow in MEMS.

List of contents

Introduction.
- Molecular Structure and Energy States.
- Some Basic Concepts of Kinetic Theory.
- Interaction of Molecules with Solid Surface.
- Free Molecular Flow.
- Continuum Models.
- Transitional Regime.
- Direct Simulation Monte-Carlo (DSMC) Method.
- Microscale Slow Gas Flows, Information Preservation Method.

Product details

• Authors: Ching Shen
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2005
• EAN: 9783540239260
• ISBN: 978-3-540-23926-0
• No. of pages: 406
• Weight: 752 g
• Illustrations: XXIV, 406 p.
• Series: Heat and Mass Transfer; Heat and Mass Transfer
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Thermodynamics; C, engineering, Classical mechanics, Thermodynamics, Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer, Chemical Engineering, Industrial Chemistry, Classical and Continuum Physics, Nanotechnology, Mechanics, Continuum physics, Fluid mechanics, Engineering Fluid Dynamics, Mechanics of fluids, Heat engineering, Heat transfer, Mass transfer, Industrial chemistry & chemical engineering, Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering