unsteady heat transfer of a monatomic gas between two coaxial circular cylinders不稳定传热的两个同轴圆柱之间的一种单原子气体.pdfVIP

UNSTEADY HEAT TRANSFER OF A MONATOMIC GAS BETWEEN TWO COAXIAL CIRCULAR CYLINDERS A. M. ABOURABIA, M. A. MAHMOUD, AND W. S. ABDEL KAREEM Received 16 August 2001 We consider a kinetic-theory treatment of the cylindrical unsteady heat transfer. A model kinetic equation of the BGK (Bhatnager-Gross-Krook) type is solved using the method of moments with a two-sided distribu- tion function. We study the relations between the different macroscopic properties of the gas as the temperature, density, and heat flux with both the radial distance r and the time t. Also we study the problem from the viewpoint of irreversible thermodynamics and estimate the entropy, entropy production, entropy flux, thermodynamic forces, kinetic coeffi- cients, the change in internal energy, and verify Onsager’s relation for nonequilibrium thermodynamic properties of the system. 1. Introduction The Couette problem with heat transfer is one of the important situa- tions in gas dynamics, which involve the nature of a rarefied gas near a solid surface. From the kinetic viewpoint, the rarefied cylindrical Cou- ette flow has been analyzed by many authors. One of the main methods of constructing the transfer theory at arbitrary Knudsen number con- sists of the use of moments obtained from Boltzmann equation. The idea behind the method of moments consists of transforming the boundary value problems from the microscopic form to the form of equations of the continuum in which the principle variables that define the state of the system are certain moments of the distribution function. The mo- tion of a rarefied gas between two coaxial cylinders: one is fixed and the other rotates with constant angular velocity, was studied in [2], using c Copyright 2002 Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Applied Mathematics 2:3 (2002) 141–161 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 74A25, 80Axx, 74A15, 62P30 URL: /10.1155/S1110757 142 Unsteady heat