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Molecular flow venting of a volume with an outgassing or desorbing source
"A venting equation commonly used to describe the transient evolution of pressure within a volume containing an outgassing or offgassing source and a restrictive vent conductance under conditions of molecular flow has been solved analytically. Solutions are found for sources of finite thickness characterized by classical diffusion-limited behavior (proportional to inverse square root of time), as well as responses for thick material sources often observed in testing that are characterized by a more general form of power-law decay, up to inverse time behavior associated with surface desorption.
Solutions involve evaluating integrals where both numerators and denominators of the integrands diverge with time, making wide-ranging transient solutions difficult to directly compute numerically. Usually, one can avoid evaluating these integrals by assuming quasistatic conditions at long time scales. A novel approach is used in this work to analytically produce solutions by generating bespoke mathematical functions, some of which solve integrals that have apparently had no previous analytical solution."
Document ID
20220011204
Acquisition Source
Goddard Space Flight Center
Document Type
Presentation
Authors
Michael Woronowicz
(KBR (United States) Houston, Texas, United States)
Date Acquired
July 26, 2022
Subject Category
Engineering (General)
Theoretical Mathematics
Report/Patent Number
20220008873
20220004974
Meeting Information
Meeting: SPIE Optics + Photonics Meeting
Location: San Diego, Ca
Country: US
Start Date: August 21, 2022
End Date: August 25, 2022
Sponsors: International Society for Optics and Photonics
Funding Number(s)
TASK: 13244.1.01.0107.000
CONTRACT_GRANT: NNG15CR64C
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