RESEARCH ON HYPERSONIC RAREFIED PLASMA FLOWS.

Abstract

A modified form of the Chapman and Enskog transport theory for gas mixtures was developed for a neutral, binary mixture with disparate molecular weights. The difficulties in the past have been that the usual Chapman and Enskog theory was based on a single time scale for the molecular relaxation. As pointed out by Grad, this relaxation occurs on a multiple time scale, and this fact is exploited in deriving a modified Chapman and Enskog theory. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 13, 1964
Accession Number
AD0609496

Entities

People

  • B. B. Hamel

Organizations

  • General Electric

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Chemical Phenomena
  • Equations
  • Integral Equations
  • Mathematical Analysis
  • Mathematics
  • Molecular Weight
  • Naval Vessels
  • Naval Vessels (Support)
  • Physicochemical Phenomena
  • Transport Ships

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Fluid Dynamics.
  • Pulsed Power and Plasma Physics.
  • Statistical inference.

Technology Areas

  • Hypersonics
  • Hypersonics - Hypersonic Flight