Kinetic approach to transport properties of a reacting gas

• Author(s): Soares, A. J. ; Bianchi, M. Pandolfi
• Date: 2005
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/1540
• Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
• Subject(s): Kinetic theory; Chemical reactions; Transport coefficients
• Document Type: Conference Object
• Language: English

Description

A multicomponent reacting gas with reversible reactions is studied at a kinetic level with the main objective of deriving the reactive Navier-Stokes equations in dependence on the macroscopic variables, and characterizing the dissipative terms related to shear viscosity, heat conduction and thermal diffusion. A step-by-step procedure, which can be applied to a quite large variety of reactive flows, is proposed in order to identify the transport coefficients, basically resorting to a first-order density approximation of Chapman-Enskog type.