Nonequilibrium processes in a shock wave profile
Abstract
A modified Tamm-Mott-Smith approach is used to study the distribution of heat fluxes in a shock wave profile and their relationship with the distribution of partial temperature in gas mixtures. Results are presented on changes of partial and mean temperature, and heat fluxes in an He-Xe mixture at a Mach number of 4.4 and in an He-Ar mixture at a Mach number of 1.58. Conditions are established under which the heat flux of the heavy component of the mixture has the same sign as the gradient of its partial temperature.
- Publication:
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Pisma v Zhurnal Tekhnischeskoi Fiziki
- Pub Date:
- March 1989
- Bibcode:
- 1989PZhTF..15...24B
- Keywords:
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- Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics;
- Rarefied Gas Dynamics;
- Shock Wave Profiles;
- Boltzmann Transport Equation;
- Gas Mixtures;
- Heat Flux;
- Kinetic Theory;
- Rare Gases;
- Temperature Distribution;
- Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics