Pressure distribution of the gaseous flow in microchannel: A lattice Boltzmann study

Communications in Computational Physics

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1058-1072

  Xu, Zimian ^a   Guo, Zhaoli ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Gaseous flows; Lattice Boltzmann method; Microchannel; Pressure distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877700651     PISSN: 18152406     EISSN: 19917120     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4208/cicp.170612.240113a     Document Type: Article

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