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The effectiveness of the self-similar interpolation method in its simplest form is demonstrated by solving the problem of a planar Couette flow in a rarefied gas between plates with different temperatures. An analytic representation of the solution is compared with the results obtained by the DSMC method. The most interesting result is the nonmonotonicity of the heat flow and the change in its sign accompanying the modification in the gas rarefaction, i.e., in the Knudsen number Kn.
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Original Russian Text © S.L. Gorelov, Vuong Van Tien, 2014, published in Matematicheskoe Modelirovanie, 2014, Vol. 26, No. 10, pp. 33–46.
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Gorelov, S.L., Van Tien, V. Couette flow and heat transfer between parallel plates in a rarefied gas. Math Models Comput Simul 7, 294–302 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S2070048215030060
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