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Monte Carlo simulation of nearly kinematic shock fronts in rarefied gases

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2002

D. Bruno  and
S. Longo
D. Bruno*
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Chimica dell'Universita' and Centro di Studio per la Chimica dei Plasmi del CNR, Via Orabona 4, 70126 Bari, Italy
S. Longo
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Chimica dell'Universita' and Centro di Studio per la Chimica dei Plasmi del CNR, Via Orabona 4, 70126 Bari, Italy
*
[email protected]
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Abstract

The effect of inter particle collisions on a “kinematic” shock wave produced by a velocity gradient in a cold atomic gas is studied, to the end of establishing a connection between such kinematic shocks and the “traditional” fluid dynamic shock front. In order to include the collisional effects we use both a DSMC (Direct Simulation Monte Carlo) model and a Monte Carlo solution of the Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook equation (BGK/MC). The substantial agreement of DSMC and BGK/MC results for a sufficiently high value of the collision frequency proves that the kinematic and thermodynamic descriptions of the shock front can be smoothly joined by scaling this parameter.

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The European Physical Journal - Applied Physics , Volume 17 , Issue 3 , March 2002 , pp. 233 - 241
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© EDP Sciences, 2002

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