Analysis and Applications of Radiometric Forces in Rarefied Gas Flows

Abstract

An overview of recent numerical and computational studies of radiometric phenomena is presented. Several important factors affecting radiometric forces have been analyzed, including the contribution of area, edge, and shear forces for different pressures and gases, chamber size effect, gas-surface accommodation, and multi-vane geometries.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 16, 2010
Accession Number
ADA524441

Entities

People

  • Andrew D. Ketsdever
  • Natalia E. Gimelshein
  • Nathaniel P. Selden
  • Sergey F. Gimelshein

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Base Pressure
  • Collisions
  • Flow
  • Gas Flow
  • Geometry
  • Knudsen Number
  • Mean Free Path
  • Measurement
  • Momentum
  • Momentum Transfer
  • Numerical Analysis
  • Rarefied Gases
  • Temperature Gradients
  • Vacuum Chambers

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Academic Conference Management
  • Atmospheric Remote Sensing.
  • Combustion science or combustion engineering.