A magnetically actuated ball valve applicable for small-scale fluid flows

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Smistrup, Kristian ^a,b   Stone, Howard A ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FORCE MEASUREMENT; HYDRAULICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; PRESSURE;

BALL VALVES; HYDRAULIC RESISTANCE; HYDRODYNAMIC FORCE; MAGNETIC FORCE; MAGNETICALLY ACTUATED BALL VALVES; SMALL-SCALE FLUID FLOWS;

VALVES (MECHANICAL);

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FORCE MEASUREMENT; HYDRAULICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; PRESSURE; VALVES (MECHANICAL);

EID: 34447339379     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2717690     Document Type: Article

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