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Aerodynamics

ratio of molecular mean free path to a body's length scale, used to sort gas flows into continuum, slip, transition and free-molecule regimes.

In aerodynamics, Knudsen number refers to ratio of molecular mean free path to a body's length scale, used to sort gas flows into continuum, slip, transition and free-molecule regimes. This meaning comes from Tsien (1946) in Journal of the Aeronautical Sciences.[1]

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References

Tsien, H. (1946). Superaerodynamics, Mechanics of Rarefied Gases. Journal of the Aeronautical Sciences, 13(12), 653-664. https://doi.org/10.2514/8.11476

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