Continuum description of rarefied gas dynamics. II. The propagation of ultrasound

Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2001 Oct;64(4 Pt 2):046309. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.64.046309. Epub 2001 Sep 26.

Abstract

The equations of fluid dynamics developed in Paper I [X. Chen, H. Rao, and E. A. Spiegel, Phys. Rev. E 64, 46308 (2001)] are applied to the study of the propagation of ultrasound waves. There is good agreement between the predicted propagation speed and experimental results for a wide range of Knudsen numbers.