In this paper, we investigate rarefied jet gas flows out of a circular exit impinging on a vertical flat plate. We employ a constraint relation about the velocity components of gas particles leaving a nozzle exit point and arriving at a given spatial point outside the nozzle. This relation leads to several analytical expressions for collisionless flow property distributions on the plate surface, including density, slip-velocity, temperature, pressure, shear stress, and heat flux. Numerical simulation results obtained with the direct simulation Monte Carlo method validate the analytical collisionless flow solutions. The impingement properties on the plate surface are accurate when the Knudsen number is large.
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