Pressure-driven water flows in trapezoidal silicon microchannels

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 353-364

  Weilin, Qu ^a   Mohiuddin Mala, Gh ^a   Dongqing, Li ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLOW OF WATER; FRICTION; LAMINAR FLOW; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; PRESSURE DROP; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; SILICON;

TRAPEZOIDAL SILICON MICROCHANNELS;

CHANNEL FLOW;

CHANNEL FLOW; FRICTION; MICROCHANNEL; MICROELECTRONICS; PRESSURE GRADIENT; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WATER;

EID: 0343819793     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0017-9310(99)00148-9     Document Type: Article

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