Low-variance Deviational Monte Carlo Simulations of pressure-driven flow in micro- and nanoscale channels

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 1084, Issue , 2009, Pages 1015-1020

  Allshouse, Michael R ^a   Hadjiconstantinou, Nicolas G ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Boltzmann equation; DSMC; LVDSMC; Microscale gas flow; Particle method

Indexed keywords

EID: 63849283167     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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