Erratum for “Flow in Noncircular Conduits”

laminar flow in annular conduits

the flow of fluids in annular conduits has been studied for over sixty years, however the resulted data are very scattered. in this paper the problem is analytically solved, starting out with navier-stokes equations. a computer solution is used to determine the shape of velocity profiles, the discharge and the friction factor in a large number of concentric and eccentric annular conduits. the e...

Heat transfer in Flow Through Conduits

We can classify the flow of a fluid in a straight circular tube into either laminar or turbulent flow. It is assumed from here on that we assume fully developed incompressible, Newtonian, steady flow conditions. Fully developed flow implies that the tube is long compared with the entrance length in which the velocity distribution at the inlet adjusts itself to the geometry and no longer changes...

Imbibition and Flow of Wetting Liquids in Noncircular Capillaries

Micromolding in capillaries (MIMIC) has been used to study the dynamics of imbibition of liquid prepolymers in micrometer-scale, rectangular capillaries formed between an elastomer containing relief structures and a self-assembled monolayer (SAM) of alkanethiolates on gold supported on Si/SiO2. Self-assembled monolayers provide a wide range of solid/vapor interfacial free energies (γSV) and a c...

Laminar Flow in Microchannels With Noncircular Cross Section

Analytical solutions are presented for laminar fully developed flow in micro-/ minichannels of hyperelliptical and regular polygonal cross sections in the form of compact relationships. The considered geometries cover a wide range of common simply connected shapes including circle, ellipse, rectangle, rectangle-with-round-corners, rhombus, star-shape, equilateral triangle, square, pentagon, and...

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