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What is thermal creep?

Updated: 12/12/2022
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It is possible to start rarefied gas flows with tangential temperature gradients along the channel walls, where the fluid starts creeping in the direction from cold towards hot. This is called the thermal creep (transpiration) phenomenon.

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