Rarefaction effects on gas viscosity in the Knudsen transition regime

Microfluidics and Nanofluidics

Volumn 9, Issue 4-5, 2010, Pages 847-853

  Michalis, Vasilis K ^a,b   Kalarakis, Alexandros N ^a   Skouras, Eugene D ^a   Burganos, Vasilis N ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCES   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Rarefied flow Effective viscosity DSMC Straight channel

Indexed keywords

CROSS SECTIONAL AREA; DIRECT SIMULATION MONTE CARLO METHOD; EFFECTIVE VISCOSITY; FUNCTIONAL DEPENDENCE; GAS FLOWS; GAS VISCOSITY; INDIVIDUAL CELLS; KNUDSEN; KNUDSEN NUMBERS; LOCAL EQUILIBRIUM; LOW-SPEED FLOW; NUMERICAL COMPUTATIONS; PHENOMENOLOGICAL DESCRIPTION; RAREFIED FLOW; SLIP-FLOW; STRAIGHT CHANNEL; STRESS CALCULATIONS; TRANSITION REGIMES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

VISCOSITY;

EID: 77957608600     PISSN: 16134982     EISSN: 16134990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10404-010-0606-3     Document Type: Article

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