Effect of the accommodation coefficient on transfer processes in a supersonic rarefied gas flow around a transversely aligned cylinder

A supersonic flow around a cylinder is studied by the direct statistical Monte Carlo method in a wide range of rarefaction: from regimes close to continuum to free-molecular flow. The effect of the accommodation coefficient on the flow near the cylinder and on heat transfer between the gas and the cylinder is examined. __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 49, No. 3, pp. 64–72, May–June, 2008.