Fluid flow and heat transfer simulation in a constricted microchannel: Effects of rarefaction, geometry, and viscous dissipation

Numerical Heat Transfer; Part A: Applications

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 209-230

  Bigham, Sajjad ^a   Shokouhmand, Hossein ^a   Isfahani, Rasool Nasr ^a   Yazdani, Sajjad ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b KERMANSHAH UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMBINED EFFECT; CONSTANT WALL TEMPERATURE; CREEPING FLOWS; CURVILINEAR COORDINATE; FINITE VOLUME SCHEMES; FIRST-ORDER; FLOW CHARACTERISTIC; FLUID FLOW; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; KNUDSEN NUMBERS; NUMERICAL DATA; SIMPLE ALGORITHM; SLIP BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; SLIP FLOW REGIMES; SLIP VELOCITY; SOLID WALL; TEMPERATURE JUMP; THERMAL FLUIDS; VISCOUS DISSIPATION;

FORCED CONVECTION; MICROCHANNELS; NUSSELT NUMBER; VISCOUS FLOW;

FLUIDS;

EID: 79551692445     PISSN: 10407782     EISSN: 15210634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10407782.2011.541203     Document Type: Article

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