Viscous flow in variable cross-section microchannels of arbitrary shapes

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 54, Issue 17-18, 2011, Pages 3970-3978

  Akbari, M ^a   Sinton, D ^b   Bahrami, M ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arbitrary cross section; Characteristic length scale; Frictional effect; Inertial effect; Modeling; Pressure drop; Slowly varying microchannels

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY CROSS SECTION; CHARACTERISTIC LENGTH SCALE; FRICTIONAL EFFECTS; INERTIAL EFFECT; MODELING; SLOWLY-VARYING MICROCHANNELS;

FRICTION; PRESSURE DROP; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

MICROCHANNELS;

EID: 79957976182     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2011.04.028     Document Type: Article

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