 Continuum Analysis of Rarefaction Effects on a Thermally Induced Gas FlowMohamed Hssikou, Jamal Baliti and Mohammed Alaoui Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2019, vol. 2019, 1-14 Abstract: A Maxwell gas confined within a micro cavity with nonisothermal walls is investigated in the slip and early transition regimes using the classical and extended continuum theories. The vertical sides of the cavity are kept at the uniform and environmental temperature , while the upper and bottom ones are linearly heated in opposite directions from the cold value to the hot one . The gas flow is, therefore, induced only by the temperature gradient created along the longitudinal walls. The problem is treated from a macroscopic point of view by solving numerically the so-called regularized 13-moment equations (R13) recently developed as an extension of Grad 13-moment theory to the third order of the Knudsen number powers in the Chapman-Enskog expansion. The gas macroscopic properties obtained by this method are compared with the classical continuum theory results (NSF) using the first and second order of velocity slip and temperature jump boundary conditions. The gas flow behavior is studied as a function of the Knudsen number , nonlinear effects, for different heating rates . The micro cavity aspect ratio effect is also evaluated on the flow fields in this study. Date: 2019 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hin:jnlmpe:5084098 DOI: 10.1155/2019/5084098 Access Statistics for this article More articles in Mathematical Problems in Engineering from Hindawi |
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