Numerical study on effective configurations of the Knudsen pump for separation and compression

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 1333, Issue PART 1, 2011, Pages 998-1003

  Takata, Shigeru ^a   Umetsu, Hiroki ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Boltzmann equation; Gas separation; Knudsen pump; Microfluidics; Narrow channel approximation; Thermal transpiration

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054011499     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3562776     Document Type: Conference Paper

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