Evaluating constitutive scaling models for application to compressible microflows

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 51, Issue 5-6, 2008, Pages 1281-1292

  O'Hare, Lynne ^a   Scanlon, Thomas J ^a   Emerson, David R ^b   Reese, Jason M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b DARESBURY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Compressible flow; Gas MEMS; Heat transfer; Knudsen layer

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL FLOW; FLOW OF GASES; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; HEAT TRANSFER; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

KNUDSEN LAYER; MICROFLOWS; MICROSCALE ENGINEERING;

COMPRESSIBLE FLOW;

CHANNEL FLOW; COMPRESSIBLE FLOW; FLOW OF GASES; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; HEAT TRANSFER; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 39149087677     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2007.12.003     Document Type: Article

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