@InProceedings{LeiteSant:2010:ThNoEf,
               author = "Leite, P. H. M. and Santos, W. F. N.",
          affiliation = "{Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto 
                         Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)}",
                title = "Thermal non-equilibrium effects on the flow field structure of 
                         hypersonic backward-facing step flow",
            booktitle = "Proceedings...",
                 year = "2010",
                pages = "4935--4953",
         organization = "Iberian-Latin American Congress On Computational Methods In 
                         Engineering, (CILAMCE 2010).",
            publisher = "Asociaci{\'o}n Argentina de Mec{\'a}nica Computacional",
              address = "Buenos Aires",
             keywords = "DSMC, Hypersonic Flow, Rarefield Flow, Non-Equilibrium Effects, 
                         Backward-Facing Step, Reentry.",
             abstract = "An exploratory computational investigation was made on 
                         backward-facing steps in a rarefied hypersonic flow. The effect of 
                         the step back-face height on the thermal non-equilibrium was 
                         examined by employing the Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) 
                         method. Results for the non-equilibrium between rotational 
                         temperature, vibrational temperature, parallel temperature, normal 
                         temperature, and translational temperature were presented and 
                         discussed at length. Parallel temperature and normal temperature 
                         are kinetic temperatures associated with x and y coordinate 
                         directions in the flowfield. Results showed that the flowfield is 
                         in thermal non-equilibrium in the boundary layer and in the 
                         shock-wave layer. In contrast, thermal equilibrium was verified at 
                         the vicinity of the step base. It was also found that entropy 
                         generation regions are related to the thermal non-equilibrium 
                         regions in the flowfield.",
  conference-location = "Buenos Aires, Argentina",
      conference-year = "15-18 nov.",
             language = "en",
           targetfile = "Leite_Thermal.pdf",
        urlaccessdate = "04 maio 2024"
}