Flow modelling of a Holweck pump stage in the viscous regime

Vacuum

Volumn 60, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 73-83

  Boulon, O ^a   Mathes, R ^a  

^a NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; VISCOSITY;

HOLWECK PUMP;

VACUUM PUMPS;

EID: 0035155263     PISSN: 0042207X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0042-207x(00)00357-2     Document Type: Article

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