Barodiffusion Mechanism of Separation of an Isotopic Gas Mixture in Superstrong Centrifugal Fields Under the Impact of an Acoustic Wave.

In the rotating gas in a superstrong centrifugal field, new mechanisms of separation of a binary isotopic gas mixture that are absent from a quiescent gas appear under the impact of waves. In the present work, an analysis of these mechanisms has been made. The mechanism of separation associated with the gas barodiffusion due to the differences between the radial distributions of the perturbation of pressure in the wave and pressure in an unperturbed field has been considered in detail. Dependences of the separation, by the barodiffusion mechanism, on the frequency and amplitude of the wave have been obtained. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]