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Evaporation from a cylindrical surface into vacuum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2006

C. J. Knight
C. J. Knight
Affiliation:
Avco Everett Research Laboratory Inc., Everett, Massachusetts 02149
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Abstract

When evaporation takes place in a surrounding vacuum, the expanding flow from a cylindrical surface is expected to start subsonic and to become supersonic in a short distance. A detailed treatment of this transition is given based on moment equations derived from the BGK model equation using an ellipsoidal approximant to the distribution function. Asymptotic solutions are developed for large source Reynolds numbers and compared with previous treatments. For moderate source Reynolds numbers a numerical procedure is used. In the latter case the treatment predicts that the flow never approaches a state of translational equilibrium.

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Research Article
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 75 , Issue 3 , 11 June 1976, pp. 469 - 486
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© 1976 Cambridge University Press

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