A two-stream Maxwellian distribution function with two unknown parameters corresponding to the mean velocity and the shear stress is used to obtained an approximate analytic solution of the Rayleigh flow problem for a rarefied gas of a nonhomogeneous system of charged particles. For small...

The Rayleigh flow problem for a highly rarefied gas of a nonhomogeneous system of charged particles is investigated in the framework of kinetic theory of gases. The moments method with a two sided distribution function is used to solve the adopted BGK kinetic model. Approximate analytic...