Effect of fluids on the Q factor and resonance frequency of oscillating micrometer and nanometer scale beams

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 69, Issue 3 2, 2004, Pages

  Bhiladvala, Rustom B ^a,b   Wang, Z Jane ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; DAMPING; DRAG; GAS DYNAMICS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; Q FACTOR MEASUREMENT; RESONANCE; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; VISCOSITY;

CONTINUUM LIMIT; NANOMETER SCALE BEAMS; RAREFIED GAS FLOW; STOKES DRAG CALCULATIONS;

MICROMETERS;

EID: 42749101899     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.69.036307     Document Type: Article

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