BRULL, Stéphane; CHARRIER, Pierre; MIEUSSENS, L

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BRULL, Stéphane
Institut de Mathématiques de Bordeaux [IMB]

CHARRIER, Pierre
Institut de Mathématiques de Bordeaux [IMB]

MIEUSSENS, L
Institut de Mathématiques de Bordeaux [IMB]
Certified Adaptive discRete moDels for robust simulAtions of CoMplex flOws with Moving fronts [CARDAMOM]

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Physics of Fluids. 2016, vol. 28

American Institute of Physics

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It is well known that the roughness of the wall has an effect on microscale gas flows. This effect can be shown for large Knudsen numbers by using a numerical solution of the Boltzmann equation. However, when the wall is rough at a nanometric scale, it is necessary to use a very small mesh size which is much too expansive. An alternative approach is to incorporate the roughness effect in the scattering kernel of the boundary condition, such as the Maxwell-like kernel introduced by the authors in a previous paper. Here, we explain how this boundary condition can be implemented in a Discrete Velocity approximation of the Boltzmann equation. Moreover, the influence of the roughness is shown by computing the structure scattering pattern of mono-energetic beams of the incident gas molecules. The effect of the angle of incidence of these molecules, of their mass, and of the morphology of the wall is investigated and discussed in a simplified two-dimensional configuration. The effect of the azimuthal angle of the incident beams is shown for a three-dimensional configuration. Finally, the case of non-elastic scattering is considered. All these results suggest that our approach is a promising way to incorporate enough physics of gas-surface interaction, at a reasonable computing cost, to improve kinetic simulations of micro and nano-flows.< Réduire

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gas-surface interaction

kinetic theory

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Nanoscale roughness effect on Maxwell-like boundary conditions for the Boltzmann equation

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