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On the motion induced in a gas confined in a small-scale gap due to instantaneous boundary heating

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2007

A. MANELA  and
N. G. HADJICONSTANTINOU
A. MANELA
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
N. G. HADJICONSTANTINOU
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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Abstract

We analyse the time response of a gas confined in a small-scale gap (of the order of or smaller than the mean free path) to an instantaneous jump in the temperature of its boundaries. The problem is formulated for a collisionless gas in the case where the relative temperature jump at each wall is small and independent of the other. An analytic solution for the probability density function is obtained and the respective hydrodynamic fields are calculated. It is found that the characteristic time scale for arriving at the new equilibrium state is of the order of several acoustic time scales (the ratio of the gap width to the most probable molecular speed of gas molecules). The results are compared with direct Monte Carlo simulations of the Boltzmann equation and good agreement is found for non-dimensional times (scaled by the acoustic time) not exceeding the system Knudsen number. Thus, the present analysis describes the early-time behaviour of systems of arbitrary size and may be useful for prescribing the initial system behaviour in counterpart continuum-limit analyses.

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 593 , 25 December 2007 , pp. 453 - 462
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2007

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