ACCOUNTING FOR ENERGY ACCOMMODATION IN CALCULATING 
THE HEAT FLUX FROM A SPHERICAL PARTICLE IN A DIATOMIC GAS

S. A. Savkova and A. A. Yushkanovb

UDC 533.72

The problem of calculation of the heat flux from a uniformly 
heated spherical particle in a diatomic gas is considered with account 
for the energy-accommodation effect. The results of numerical calculations 
for the analog of the BGK collision-integral model are presented.

aOrel State University, Orel, Russia; 
bMoscow Pedagogical University, Moscow, Russia. 
Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, 
Vol. 75, No. 5, pp. 149-154, September-October, 2002. Original 
article submitted January 16, 2002.

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