Relaxation processes in hypersonic rarefied binary gas mixture flow around a cylinder

Using the direct simulation Monte Carlo method, the hypersonic flow of a binary gas mixture around a cylinder is investigated over a wide rarefaction range: from an almost continuum regime (at the Knudsen number Kn = 0.01) to free-molecular flow. The effect of a small admixture of heavy diatomic particles in a light gas flow on the relaxation processes near the cylinder and the heat flux is studied.