accommodation coefficient

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accommodation coefficient [ə‚käm·ə′dā·shən ‚kō·ə′fish·ənt]

(statistical mechanics)

The ratio of the average energy actually transferred between a surface and impinging gas molecules scattered by the surface, to the average energy which would theoretically be transferred if the impinging molecules reached complete thermal equilibrium with the surface.

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