The Pumping Effect of Traveling Phase Transition in Microtubes

International Journal of Nonlinear Sciences and Numerical Simulation

Volumn 3, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 565-568

  Wang, Mo Ran ^a   Li, Zhi Xin ^a   Chen, Ze Jing ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Micropump; Phase transition; Pumping effect

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036323168     PISSN: 15651339     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/IJNSNS.2002.3.3-4.565     Document Type: Article

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