This self-contained work is an up-to-date treatment of the basic theory of molecular gas dynamics and its various applications. Recent progress in the field has greatly enhanced the original theory and stimulated interesting and critical gas dynamic phenomena and problems. This book, unique in the literature, presents working knowledge, theory, techniques, and typical phenomena in rarefied gases for theoretical development and applications.

Molecular Gas Dynamics is useful for those working in different communities where kinetic theory or fluid dynamics is important: graduate students, researchers, and practitioners in theoretical physics, applied mathematics, and various branches of engineering. The work may be used as a self-study reference or as a textbook in graduate-level courses on fluid dynamics, gas dynamics, kinetic theory, molecular or rarefied gas dynamics, microflows, and applied mathematics.

An up-to-date description of the basic theory of molecular gas dynamics and its various applications Progress in the field over the last thirty years has greatly enhanced the original theory and has stimulated interesting and critical gas dynamic phenomena and problems An explanation of the theoretical background for the direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method is easily accessible to nonmathematicians and not found elsewhere in literature The ghost effect, which made molecular gas dynamics indispensable to the study of a gas in the continuum limit, is discussed in the context of a new framework For a broad audience of graduate students, researchers, and practitioners in theoretical physics, applied mathematics, and various branches of engineering. May be used as a textbook in graduate-level courses on fluid dynamics, gas dynamics, kinetic theory, molecular or rarefied gas dynamics, microflows, and applied mathematics Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Inhalt
Boltzmann Equation.- Highly Rarefied Gas: Free Molecular Gas and Its Correction.- Slightly Rarefied Gas: Asymptotic Theory of the Boltzmann System for Small Knudsen Numbers.- Simple Flows.- Flows Induced by Temperature Fields.- Flows with Evaporation and Condensation.- Bifurcation in the Half-Space Problem of Evaporation and Condensation.- Ghost Effect and Bifurcation I: Bénard and Taylor-Couette Problems.- Ghost Effect and Bifurcation II: Ghost Effect of Infinitesimal Curvature and Bifurcation of the Plane Couette Flow.