The impulsively started and heated finite flat plate in a collisionless gas
Abstract
The flow resulting from sudden acceleration of a thin flat plate from the state of rest to a certain constant velocity (and constant temperature) is analyzed. The plate is initially in thermal equilibrium with a gas of given density and temperature. It is shown how any flow parameter can be defined in terms of successive moments of the distribution function. Curves showing the influence of plate temperature on normal and tangential velocity and on the gas temperature and density are plotted.
- Publication:
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Mechanics Research Communications
- Pub Date:
- 1974
- Bibcode:
- 1974MeReC...1...89F
- Keywords:
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- Flat Plates;
- Free Molecular Flow;
- Pulse Heating;
- Rarefied Gas Dynamics;
- Thin Plates;
- Acceleration (Physics);
- Boundary Value Problems;
- Flow Velocity;
- Gas Density;
- Gas Temperature;
- Wall Temperature;
- Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer