MONTE CARLO SOLUTION FOR THE CHARACTERISTICS OF A HIGHLY RAREFIED IONIZED GAS FLOWING THROUGH A CHANNEL WITH A TRANSVERSE MAGNETIC FIELD

摘要

The steady flow of a highly rarefied ionization gas through a channel with a magnetic field normal to the channel wall is studied. The solution is ob¬tained by a Monte Carlo procedure. This method consists of following sample ions through the channel. By tallying properties of these ions as they pass scoring cross sections of the channel, the various local properties of the flows such as density, mass flow, energies, and wall shear stress are obtained. These results for the small magnetic field cases were compared with the limit¬ing analytical solutions for no magnetic field and were in good agreement with them.