Thermomagnetic forces in a rarefied gas
Abstract
The kinetic theory of the thermomagnetic force effect developed in the present paper, describes the influence of an external magnetic field on the thermal force acting on a body situated in a nonuniformly heated gas. The approach to the calculation of the thermomagnetic force is based on the solution of an integral kinetic equation. Two possible mechanisms of the thermomagnetic force effect are identified, one mechanism involves nonspherical gas molecule collisions, the other, nonspherical reflection of polarized molecules from the surface. The second mechanism is capable of explaining the observed dependence of the magnitude of the thermomagnetic force on the material of the body.
- Publication:
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Zhurnal Eksperimentalnoi i Teoreticheskoi Fiziki
- Pub Date:
- July 1979
- Bibcode:
- 1979ZhETF..77..144B
- Keywords:
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- Kinetic Theory;
- Polyatomic Gases;
- Rarefied Gases;
- Thermomagnetic Effects;
- Integral Equations;
- Magnetic Fields;
- Molecular Collisions;
- Surface Properties;
- Plasma Physics