Experimental investigation of water flow in smooth and rough silicon microchannels

Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1397-1402

  Hao, Peng Fei ^a   Yao, Zhao Hui ^a   He, Feng ^a   Zhu, Ke Qin ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FABRICATION; FRICTION; HYDRAULICS; LAMINAR FLOW; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SILICON; SILICON WAFERS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THEOREM PROVING; TURBULENT FLOW; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

CROSS-SECTION MICROCHANNELS; MICROSCOPIC PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY (MICRO-PIV);

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

EID: 33745110241     PISSN: 09601317     EISSN: 13616439     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0960-1317/16/7/037     Document Type: Article

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