Simulation of rarefied gas flows in atmospheric pressure interfaces for mass spectrometry systems

Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1890-1899

  Garimella, Sandilya ^a   Zhou, Xiaoyu ^a   Ouyang, Zheng ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Discontinuous atmospheric pressure interface; Numeric gas dynamic simulation

Indexed keywords

DIRECT SIMULATION MONTE CARLO; HIGH SENSITIVITY; INSTRUMENT DESIGNS; NUMERIC SIMULATION; RAREFIED GAS FLOW; SPECTROMETRY SYSTEMS; THEORETICAL MODELING; TRANSITION PRESSURE;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW OF GASES; GAS DYNAMICS; MASS SPECTROMETRY;

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES (API);

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL PHENOMENA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCONTINUOUS ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE INTERFACE; GAS FLOW; ION TRANSPORT; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRESSURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIMULATION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GASES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MOTION;

EID: 84890538335     PISSN: 10440305     EISSN: 18791123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13361-013-0736-4     Document Type: Article

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