Low Reynolds number flow in spiral microchannels

Journal of Fluids Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 132, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 0712021-07120213

  Lepchev, Denis ^a   Weihs, Daniel ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Microflows; Spiral microchannels; Viscous incompressible flow

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; CO-ORDINATE SYSTEM; CONVERGING CHANNEL; CREEPING FLOWS; EXPONENTIAL DEPENDENCE; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLUID; LAB-ON-A-CHIP; LOW REYNOLDS NUMBER FLOW; MICROFLOWS; NAVIER STOKES; SMALL SIZE; STOKES EQUATIONS; VELOCITY PROFILES; VISCOUS INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOWS;

INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; MICROCHANNELS; PRESSURE DROP; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS;

EID: 77955451245     PISSN: 00982202     EISSN: 1528901X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4001860.     Document Type: Article

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