Heat transfer in a rarefied polyatomic gas. II. Sphere (Q1116842)

[For part I see, the authors, ibid. 28, 2019-2027 (1985; Zbl 0575.76079).] The Hanson-Morse model of the linearized Wang Chang-Uhlenbeck equation is used to calculate the heat transfer from a spherical particle situated in an infinite expanse of a polyatomic gas. Results for heat transfer, density, and internal and translational temperature profiles for all degrees of rarefactions and for arbitrary internal and translational accommodation coefficients are obtained. Also studied is the dependence of these results on Knudsen number, internal energy, Eucken factor, and collision relaxation number.