Some Studies on Rarefied Gas Flows

Abstract

This paper deals with the Knudsen layers in Rayleigh shear flow and other related flows of rarefied gas. A matching procedure is presented by which the outer solution for continuum regime and the solution for the Knudsen layer are determined simultaneously. Numerical discussions are made of the flow velocity and shear stress. A brief discussion as for the coefficients of slip and temperature-jump is also given.