Single phase pressure drop in microchannels

International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow

Volumn 28, Issue 1 SPEC. ISS., 2007, Pages 2-14

  Hrnjak, Pega ^a   Tu, Xiao ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRICTION; LAMINAR FLOW; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; PRESSURE DROP; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TURBULENT FLOW; VAPORS;

FRICTION FACTOR; MICROCHANNELS;

CHANNEL FLOW;

CHANNEL FLOW; FRICTION; LAMINAR FLOW; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; PRESSURE DROP; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TURBULENT FLOW; VAPORS;

EID: 33845433896     PISSN: 0142727X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatfluidflow.2006.05.005     Document Type: Article

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