Direct Solving the Boltzmann Equation for Supersonic Jet Problems with Instabilities

  • Aristov V.V. (Dorodnicyn Computing Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences) ;
  • Zabelok S.A. (Dorodnicyn Computing Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences)
  • Published : 2003.10.01

Abstract

The Boltzmann kinetic equation is solved directly by means of the conservative splitting method. Underexpanded supersonic free jet flows with small Knudsen numbers are studied. In this numerical simulation features intrinsic to appropriate experiments are observed. Streamwise vortices in a mixing layer and chaotic downstream temporal-spatial fluctuations of microscopic quantities with large amplitude are obtained.

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