Kinetic modeling of temperature driven flows in short microchannels

International Journal of Thermal Sciences

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1045-1051

  Alexeenko, Alina A ^a   Gimelshein, Sergey F ^a   Muntz, E Phillip ^a   Ketsdever, Andrew D ^b  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

BGK; DSMC; Kinetic models; Microchannels; Thermal transpiration

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; THERMAL EFFECTS;

BGK; DIRECT SIMULATION MONTE CARLO (DSMC); KINETIC MODELS; MICROCHANNELS; THERMAL TRANSPIRATION;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

EID: 33747878568     PISSN: 12900729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijthermalsci.2006.01.014     Document Type: Article

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