COUETTE PROBLEM FOR A RAREFIED GAS IN A CHANNEL

A. V. Latyshev and A. A. Yushkanov

UDC 533.72

A study is made of the influence of the accommodation 
coefficients of tangential momentum of molecules on the lower and 
upper plates on the behavior of the gas between moving plates with 
arbitrary mirror-diffuse boundary conditions. The solution is constructed 
in a wide range of Knudsen numbers. Expressions for the mass and heat 
fluxes, the friction force, and the mass velocity are obtained.

Moscow State Regional University, 10a Radio Str., Moscow, 
105005, Russia. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 
79, No. 2, pp. 186-193, March-April, 2006. Original article 
submitted March 23, 2004; revision submitted August 25, 2005.