Interfacial thermal resistance (ITR) is the main obstacle for heat flows from one material to
another. Understanding ITR becomes essential for the removal of redundant heat from fast …

Chemical and electrical thrusters are generally utilized to control the attitude and orbit of
spacecraft in aerospace. When they are firing, the exhaust expands into the vacuum …

The gold-standard definition of the Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method is given
in the 1994 book by Bird [Molecular Gas Dynamics and the Direct Simulation of Gas Flows …

Developing a robust, cost-effective, super-thermal insulation material with an ultralow
thermal conductivity, ie, below that of stationary air (0.026 W/(mK), 300 K, 1.0 atm), is …

Active Janus particles suspended in a plasma were studied experimentally. The Janus
particles were micron-size plastic microspheres, one half of which was coated with a thin …

Characteristics of liquid–liquid slug flow are investigated in a microchannel with focus on the
leakage flow that bypasses droplets through channel gutters. The results show that the …

The control of the satellites end-of-life including deorbiting and atmospheric entry as well as
the investigation of orbital maneuvers for new space missions confer a growing importance …

Nucleation and growth of highly crystalline silicon nanoparticles in atmospheric-pressure
low-temperature microplasmas at gas temperatures well below the Si crystallization …

In rarefied gas flows, discontinuity phenomena such as velocity slip and temperature jump
commonly appear in the gas layer adjacent to a solid boundary. Due to the physical …

This study proposes a scattering database method to model gas–solid interaction based on
a database of distributions of scattering velocity obtained by a molecular dynamics …