Pressure-driven diffusive gas flows in micro-channels: From the Knudsen to the continuum regimes

Microfluidics and Nanofluidics

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 679-692

  Dongari, Nishanth ^a,b   Sharma, Ashutosh ^a,c   Durst, Franz ^a  

^a FMP TECHNOLOGY GMBH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

Micro channel flow; Self mass diffusion; Slip boundary condition

Indexed keywords

AXIAL DIFFUSIONS; COMPRESSIBLE GAS; DIRECT SIMULATION MONTE CARLO METHODS; EXPERIMENTAL DATUM; FLOW REGIMES; GAS FLOWS; HEAT AND MASS TRANSFERS; KNUDSEN; KNUDSEN NUMBERS; LINEARIZED BOLTZMANN EQUATIONS; MICRO CHANNELS; MICRO-CHANNEL FLOW; MODIFIED NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; PRESSURE-DRIVEN; SELF-MASS DIFFUSION; SLIP BOUNDARY CONDITION; TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS; THEORETICAL PREDICTIONS; THEORETICAL TREATMENTS; WALL SLIPS;

AERODYNAMICS; BOLTZMANN EQUATION; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CHANNEL FLOW; COMPRESSIBILITY OF GASES; CONTACTS (FLUID MECHANICS); DIFFUSION IN SOLIDS; FLOW OF GASES; FLUID DYNAMICS; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; MASS TRANSFER; MOSFET DEVICES; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER; VISCOUS FLOW; WALL FLOW;

NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS;

EID: 67349178095     PISSN: 16134982     EISSN: 16134990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10404-008-0344-y     Document Type: Article

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