Direct simulation Monte Carlo: Recent Advances and Applications

Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 30, Issue , 1998, Pages 403-441

  Oran, E S ^a   Oh, C K ^a   Cybyk, B Z ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Microchannel flows; Particle simulations; Plasma etch; Rarefied gases; Vapor deposition processes

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000451922     PISSN: 00664189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.fluid.30.1.403     Document Type: Article

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