Thermal transpiration for the linearized Boltzmann equation
Thermal transpiration for the linearized Boltzmann equation
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线性玻尔兹曼方程的热蒸腾
DOI:
10.1002/cpa.20167
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发表时间:
2007
影响因子:
3
通讯作者:
Y. Sone
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作者:
Chiun;I;Tai;Y. Sone
The phenomena of thermal transpiration due to the boundary temperature gradient is studied on the level of the linearized Boltzmann equation for the hard‐sphere model. We construct such a flow for a highly rarefied gas between two plates and also in a circular pipe. It is shown that the flow velocity parallel to the plates is proportional to the boundary temperature gradient. For a highly rarefied gas, that is, for a sufficiently large Knudsen number κ, the flow velocity between two plates is of the order of log κ, and the flow velocity in a pipe is of finite order. Our analysis is based on certain pointwise estimates of the solutions of the linearized Boltzmann equation. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.