Direct Simulation Monte Carlo Method Applied to Aerothermodynamics
An axisymmetric supersonic flow of rarefied gas past a finite cylinder was calculated applying the direct simulation Monte Carlo method. The drag force, the coefficients of pressure, of skin friction, and of heat transfer, the fields of density, of temperature, and of velocity were calculated as function of the Reynolds number for a fixed Mach number. The variation of the Reynolds number is related to the variation of the Knudsen number, which characterizes the gas rarefaction. The present results show that all quantities in the transition regime (Knudsen number is about the unity) are significantly different from those in the hydrodynamic regime, when the Knudsen number is small.
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| Language: | English |
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The Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences
2001
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| Online Access: | http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-73862001000400005 |
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