Transient heat transfer and gas flow in a MEMS-based thruster

Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 181-194

  Alexeenko, Alina A ^a,b   Fedosov, Dmitry A ^a   Gimelshein, Sergey F ^a,b   Levin, Deborah A ^a   Collins, Robert J ^c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Viterbi School of Engineering ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluid flow; Kinetic methods; Microfluidics; Semi conductor device; Space vehicle propulsion

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOW OF FLUIDS; HEAT TRANSFER; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NOZZLES; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES;

COUPLED THERMAL-FLUID ANALYSIS; HIGH-TEMPERATURE MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS-BASED THRUSTER; MICROFLUIDICS; SPACE VEHICLE PROPULSION; TRANSIENT HEAT CONDUCTION EQUATION;

FLUIDICS;

EID: 32244432964     PISSN: 10577157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JMEMS.2005.859203     Document Type: Article

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