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Flow of a Rarefied Gas past an Axisymmetric Body. II. Case of a Sphere

C. Cercignani, Carlo Pagani, Piero Bassanini

The Physics of Fluids · 1968 · 89 citations · 3 references

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Abstract

The drag exerted by the flow on a sphere is explicitly calculated by using the relation between the drag and a certain functional. A comparison of the results with the experimental data of Millikan gives excellent agreement.

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The General Law of Fall of a Small Spherical Body through a Gas, and its Bearing upon the Nature of Molecular Reflection from Surfaces

R. A. Millikan · Physical Review · 1923 · 428 citations

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Variational Approach to Boundary-Value Problems in Kinetic Theory

Carlo Cercignani, Carlo Pagani · The Physics of Fluids · 1966 · 142 citations

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Comparison of kinetic theory analyses of linearized heat transfer between parallel plates

Piero Bassanini, C. Cercignani, Carlo Pagani · International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer · 1967 · 83 citations

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