Collisional Energy Transfer Modeling in Non-equilibrium Condensing Flows

Abstract

Molecular dynamics and DSMC models for energy transfer in argon dimer - argon monomer collisions are compared. The inelastic collision number for these collisions is evaluated, and found to decrease significantly when gas temperature increases.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 23, 2010
Accession Number
ADA524469

Entities

People

  • Deborah A. Levin
  • Ingrid J. Wysong
  • Natalia E. Gimelshein
  • Sergey F. Gimelshein

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Algorithms
  • Chemical Kinetics
  • Collisions
  • Condensation
  • Dissociation
  • Dynamics
  • Energy
  • Energy Transfer
  • Flow
  • Gas Dynamics
  • Kinetic Theory
  • Molecular Dynamics
  • Physics
  • Rate Of Formation
  • Simulations
  • Trajectories

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Combustion and Flow Dynamics.
  • Combustion science or combustion engineering.
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)