Knudsen flow

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From Martin Knudsen, Danish physicist.

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Knudsen flow (plural Knudsen flows)

  1. (physics) The flow of a gas in which the mean free path of its molecules is much longer than the characteristic dimension of the tube etc that it is flowing through.

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