Modeling the gas flow upstream and in the sampling nozzle of the inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer via the Direct Simulation Monte Carlo algorithm

Spectrochimica Acta - Part B Atomic Spectroscopy

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 215-221

  Spencer, Ross L ^a   Krogel, Jaron ^a   Palmer, Jamie ^a   Payne, Adam ^a   Sampson, Andrew ^a   Somers, William ^a   Woods, Charles N ^a  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Direct Simulation Monte Carlo; Gas flow simulation; Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; ARGON; FLOW OF GASES; FLUID DYNAMICS; GASES; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; MASS SPECTROMETERS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NOZZLES; PHOTORESISTS; SPECTROMETRY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

ARGON GAS; BOUNDARY LAYER FORMATIONS; DIRECT-SIMULATION MONTE CARLO; DOUGLAS; FLOW-THROUGH; GAS FLOWS; IDEAL VALUES; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETERS; SIMULATION RESULTS;

FLOW SIMULATION;

EID: 63449135654     PISSN: 05848547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sab.2009.01.003     Document Type: Article

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