Pressure drop of fully-developed, laminar flow in microchannel of arbitrary cross-section

Journal of Fluids Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 128, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1036-1044

  Bahrami, M ^a   Yovanovich, M M ^b,c   Culham, J R ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b ASME

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PRESSURE DROP;

ARBITRARY CROSS SECTIONS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; GEOMETRICAL PARAMETERS; MICROCHANNELS;

LAMINAR FLOW;

EID: 33750075764     PISSN: 00982202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2234786     Document Type: Article

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