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Transient motion of a confined rarefied gas due to wall heating or cooling

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2006

Dean C. Wadsworth ,
Daniel A. Erwin  and
E. Phillip Muntz
Dean C. Wadsworth
Affiliation:
Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-1191, USA
Daniel A. Erwin
Affiliation:
Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-1191, USA
E. Phillip Muntz
Affiliation:
Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-1191, USA
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Abstract

The transient motion that arises in a confined rarefied gas as a container wall is rapidly heated or cooled is simulated numerically. The Knudsen number based on nominal gas density and characteristic container dimension is varied from near-continuum to highly rarefied conditions. Solutions are generated with the direct simulation Monte Carlo method. Comparisons are made with finite-difference solutions of the Navier–Stokes equations, the limiting free-molecular values, and (continuum) results based on a small perturbation analysis. The wall heating and cooling scenarios considered induce relatively large acoustic disturbances in the gas, with characteristic flow speeds on the order of 20% of the local sound speed. Steady-state conditions are reached after on the order of 5 to 10 acoustic time units, here based on the initial speed of sound in the gas and the container dimension. As rarefaction increases, the initial gas response time is decreased. For the case of a rapid increase in wall temperature, transient rarefaction effects near the wall greatly alter gas response compared to the continuum predictions, even at relatively small nominal Knudsen number. For wall cooling, the continuum solution agrees well with direct simulation at that same Knudsen number. A local Knudsen number, based on the mean free path and the scale length of the temperature gradient, is found to be a more suitable indicator of transient rarefaction effects.

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Research Article
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 248 , March 1993 , pp. 219 - 235
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© 1993 Cambridge University Press

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