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Gas flows through constricted shallow micro-channels

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2008

A. GAT ,
I. FRANKEL  and
D. WEIHS
A. GAT
Affiliation:
Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel
I. FRANKEL
Affiliation:
Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel
D. WEIHS
Affiliation:
Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel
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Abstract

We study the viscous compressible flow through micro-channels of non-uniform cross-section. A lubrication approximation is applied to analyse the flow through shallow configurations whose gap width is small in comparison with the other characteristic dimensions. Focusing on channels with a symmetric constriction (or cavity) we obtain the solution to the problem by means of a Schwarz–Christoffel transformation. This analytic solution is verified by examining the convergence of numerical simulations with diminishing Reynolds number and gap width. Explicit closed-form expressions for the pressure-head and mass-flow-rate losses in terms of the geometrical parameters characterizing the constriction are presented and discussed in the context of experimental data existing in the literature.

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 602 , 10 May 2008 , pp. 427 - 442
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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