On the importance of thermal creep in natural convective gas microflow with wall heat fluxes

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2008, Pages

  Weng, Huei Chu ^a   Chen, Cha'O Kuang ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREEP; FLOW RATE; FLOW VELOCITY; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER; MICROCHANNELS;

ASYMMETRIC WALL HEAT FLUXES; GAS TEMPERATURE; THERMAL CREEP;

FLOW OF GASES;

EID: 44449104956     PISSN: 00223727     EISSN: 13616463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/41/11/115501     Document Type: Article

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