Slip and barodiffusion phenomena in slow flows of a gas mixture

V. M. Zhdanov
Phys. Rev. E 95, 033106 – Published 10 March 2017

Abstract

The slip and barodiffusion problems for the slow flows of a gas mixture are investigated on the basis of the linearized moment equations following from the Boltzmann equation. We restrict ourselves to the set of the third-order moment equations and state two general relations (resembling conservation equations) for the moments of the distribution function similar to the conditions used by Loyalka [S. K. Loyalka, Phys. Fluids 14, 2291 (1971)] in his approximation method (the modified Maxwell method). The expressions for the macroscopic velocities of the gas mixture species, the partial viscous stress tensors, and the reduced heat fluxes for the stationary slow flow of a gas mixture in the semi-infinite space over a plane wall are obtained as a result of the exact solution of the linearized moment equations in the 10- and 13-moment approximations. The general expression for the slip velocity and the simple and accurate expressions for the viscous, thermal, diffusion slip, and baroslip coefficients, which are given in terms of the basic transport coefficients, are derived by using the modified Maxwell method. The solutions of moment equations are also used for investigation of the flow and diffusion of a gas mixture in a channel formed by two infinite parallel plates. A fundamental result is that the barodiffusion factor in the cross-section-averaged expression for the diffusion flux contains contributions associated with the viscous transfer of momentum in the gas mixture and the effect of the Knudsen layer. Our study revealed that the barodiffusion factor is equal to the diffusion slip coefficient (correct to the opposite sign). This result is consistent with the Onsager's reciprocity relations for kinetic coefficients following from nonequilibrium thermodynamics of the discontinuous systems.

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  • Received 7 December 2016

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.95.033106

©2017 American Physical Society

Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

Fluid Dynamics

Authors & Affiliations

V. M. Zhdanov*

  • Plasma Physics Department, National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute), 31 Kashirskoe Highway, 115409 Moscow, Russia

  • *zhdanov@plasma.mephi.ru

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Vol. 95, Iss. 3 — March 2017

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