Optimal surface fractal dimension for heat and fluid flow in microchannels

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 97, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Chen, Yongping ^a   Zhang, Chengbin ^a   Shi, Mingheng ^a   Peterson, George P ^b  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID; FLUID FLOW; FRACTAL CHARACTERIZATION; HEAT TRANSFER PERFORMANCE; HYDRODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; MULTISCALES; ROUGH SURFACES; ROUGHNESS HEIGHT; SELF-AFFINE; SURFACE FRACTAL DIMENSIONS; WEIERSTRASS-MANDELBROT FUNCTIONS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUIDS; MICROCHANNELS; OPTIMIZATION; PARTIAL DISCHARGES; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE STRUCTURE;

FRACTAL DIMENSION;

EID: 77956217275     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3481379     Document Type: Article

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