... emerged from the kinetic theory community, Schrage's equation continues to be widely used. In this paper, we quantify the accuracy of the Schrage equation for evaporation and condensation of monatomic and polyatomic fluids at the low to moderately high flux operating conditions relevant to thermofluid...

...P. Chantrenne; C. Ould-Lahoucine The kinetic theory of gas is used to predict the specific heat and thermal conductivity of ZnO nanostructures. In this model, phonons are considered as a gas whose basic properties are given by phonon dispersion curves. The model also requires knowledge...

... the kinetic theory of gases, Fick’s law of diffusion is more appropriately expressed on a mass basis than on a molar basis. Then a generalized diffusion layer model is derived on a mass basis with an exact formulation of mass diffusion. The generalized model considers the effect of variable mixture molecular...

... pressure fields are computed at each time step from coupled continuity/momentum and energy equations in the wick and vapor regions. The mass flow rate at the interface is obtained from the application of kinetic theory. Predictions are made for the magnitude of heat flux at which dryout would occur...

... Division for publication in the JOURNAL OF HEAT TRANSFER . Manuscript received by the Heat Transfer Division May 23, 2000; revision received November 13, 2000. Associate Editor: D. Poulikakos. 23 May 2000 13 November 2000 kinetic theory interface phenomena slip flow momentum mass...

... in the transition and ballistic flow regime for Couette flows. The viscous heat generation rate, in contrast, is significantly underpredicted by the slip flow theory. We propose an alternative approach based on kinetic theory and present a compact analytic expression for the viscous dissipation rate. [S0022-1481(00...