K. Sugiyama et al., FLOW-INDUCED BY TEMPERATURE-GRADIENT ALONG WALL IN RAREFIED-GAS CONTAINER, JSME international journal. Series B, fluids and thermal engineering, 39(2), 1996, pp. 376-380
There is a possibility that flow (thermal creep flow) induced by the t
emperature gradient along wall can occur in reduced pressure container
s. Simulation of this type of flow is important in material technology
, such as chemical vapor deposition or in the design of thermal device
s that effectively utilize this phenomenon. The present study attempts
to simulate this type of flow by the direct simulation Monte Carlo me
thod. As a result, it is demonstrated that thermal creep flows with ma
gnitudes of about 10(-2) of the most probable molecular thermal speed
are well simulated by using this method.