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Rarefied gas flow around a sharp edge induced by a temperature field

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 January 2012

Satoshi Taguchi  and
Kazuo Aoki
Satoshi Taguchi*
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Intelligent Systems, University of Electro-Communications, Chofu, Tokyo 182-8585, Japan
Kazuo Aoki
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Science and Advanced Research Institute of Fluid Science and Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
*
†Email address for correspondence: taguchi@mce.uec.ac.jp
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A rarefied gas flow thermally induced around a heated (or cooled) flat plate, contained in a vessel, is considered in two different situations: (i) both sides of the plate are simultaneously and uniformly heated (or cooled); and (ii) only one side of the plate is uniformly heated. The former is known as the thermal edge flow and the latter, typically observed in the Crookes radiometer, may be called the radiometric flow. The steady behaviour of the gas induced in the container is investigated on the basis of the Bhatnagar–Gross–Krook (BGK) model of the Boltzmann equation and the diffuse reflection boundary condition by means of an accurate finite-difference method. The flow features are clarified for a wide range of the Knudsen number, with a particular emphasis placed on the structural similarity between the two flows. The limiting behaviour of the flow as the Knudsen number tends to zero (and thus the system approaches the continuum limit) is investigated for both flows. The detailed structure of the normal stress on the plate as well as the cause of the radiometric force (the force acting on the plate from the hotter to the colder side) is also clarified for the present infinitely thin plate.

JFM classification

Rarefied Gas Flow: Kinetic theory Micro-/Nano-fluid dynamics: Microfluidics Micro-/Nano-fluid dynamics: Non-continuum effects
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 694 , 10 March 2012 , pp. 191 - 224
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2012. Published by Cambridge University Press 2012 This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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