A Continuum Description of Rarefied Gas Dynamics (II)--- The Propagation of Ultrasound
arXiv:astro-ph/0105347 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.64.046309
Abstract
The equations of fluid dynamics developed in paper I are applied to the study of the propagation of ultrasound waves. There is good agreement between the predicted propagation speed and experimental results for a wide range of Knudsen numbers.
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