Electronic Resource
[S.l.]
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American Institute of Physics (AIP)
Physics of Fluids
8 (1996), S. 1764-1773
ISSN:
1089-7666
Source:
AIP Digital Archive
Topics:
Physics
Notes:
The methods of qualitative theory of dynamical systems are used to provide new information of the Navier–Stokes solutions for gas flows driven by evaporation and condensation at interphase surfaces. It is shown that these solutions correspond to separatrixes of the saddle point in the (u,T) plane. The classification of solutions is given, and some special cases are studied in detail. The qualitative methods are applied to the problem of evaporation/condensation between two plates. It is shown that the topology of the saddle point implies the following situation: one of the functions u(x) (velocity) or T(x) (temperature) is always non-monotone for sufficiently small Knudsen number. This explains some previously published numerical results. The case of finite Reynolds number is considered separately, and relationship with the kinetic-theory results is discussed throughout. © 1996 American Institute of Physics.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.868959
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