Journal of Physical Studies 3(4), 456–457 (1999)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.30970/jps.03.456

HIGH-TEMPERATURE ESTIMATION OF ENERGY ACCOMMODATION COEFFICIENT OF GAS MOLECULES ON THE SURFACE

I. S. Altman
Institute of Combustion & Advanced Technologies, Odesa State University
2 Dvorians'ka Str., Odesa, UA-65026, Ukraine

The upper estimation of energy accommodation coefficient is obtained. It is shown that this coefficient tends to zero asymptotically for high temperatures. It means that at high temperatures the efficiency of heat transfer between gas and condensed body is small when gas–surface collisions occur in free–molecular regime.

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