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Numerical simulations of near field of a plume exhausting from a plane wedge-like micronozzle into vacuum are performed using two different kinetic approaches: one of the model kinetic equations (ellipsoidal statistical model) and direct simulation Monte Carlo method. Adequacy and accuracy of the model kinetic equation as applied to such strongly non-equilibrium flows are studied by comparing the results with the data of DSMC simulations.
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This work was supported by the Grant of the Government of the Russian Federation (Agreement No. 14.Z50.31.0019) for supporting research supervised by leading scientists and by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR Project No. 12-01-00776-a).
We are deeply grateful to our colleague Dr. Alexander Kashkovsky for his consultations on the SMILE software system and numerous fruitful discussions.
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In this section we present tabulated data from the ESBGK computation for the centerline and angular non-dimensional distributions of gasdynamic quantities. As previously, the subscript h denotes quantities in the nozzle throat.
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Shershnev, A., Kudryavtsev, A. Kinetic simulation of near field of plume exhausting from a plane micronozzle. Microfluid Nanofluid 19, 105–115 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10404-015-1553-9
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