Flow of a relaxed gas in the vicinity of a solid surface

Abstract

Behavior of a polyatomic relaxed gas in the vicinity of a solid surface was studied. The case in which the size of the relaxation zone exceeds considerably the mean free path between the elastic collisions (suppressed exchange of translational and internal energies) was considered. A smooth validity of the asymptotic expansion for the distribution function with defined assumptions was indicated. A solution for the zero-approximation equation and boundary conditions for the surface flow, based on this solution and generalized model for a diffusive gas reflection from the surface were derived. The latter problem was partially studied in [1] by the Grad method and in [2] in terms of an analysis of the temperature jump.