Bird G.A. Molecular Gas Dynamics and the Direct Simulation of Gas Flows

Oxford University Press, 1994. 479 p. — ISBN: 0198561954 — (Oxford Engineering Science).The direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method has, in recent years, become widely used for engineering and scientific studies of gas flows that involve low densities or very small physical dimensions. The method is a direct physical simulation of the motion of representative molecules, rather than a numerical solution of the equations that provide a mathematical model of the flow.