Gas Flow Characteristics in Microtubes.

Lattice Boltzmann method simulation gas slip flow in long microtubes

Purpose – This paper aims to examine how using lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) aids the study of the isothermal-gas flow with slight rarefaction in long microtubes. Design/methodology/approach – A revised axisymmetric lattice Boltzmann model is proposed to simulate the flow in microtubes. The wall boundary condition combining the bounce-back and specular-reflection schemes is used to capture the...

Heat transfer and friction characteristics of air flow in microtubes

Several researches dealing with the single-phase forced convection heat transfer inside microchannels have been published in the past decades. The performance of liquid flow has been proved that agrees with the conventional correlations very well. However, owing to the low heat transfer coefficient of gaseous flow, it is more difficult to eliminate the effects of thermal shunt and heat loss tha...

Gas flows in microchannels and microtubes

This study analyses compressible gas flows through microchannels or microtubes, and develops two complete sets of asymptotic solutions. It is a natural extension of the previous work by Arkilic et al. on compressible flows through microchannels. First, by comparing the magnitudes of different forces in the compressible gas flow, we obtain proper estimations for the Reynolds and Mach numbers at ...

Rarefied gas flow in microtubes at different inlet-outlet pressure ratios

Laminar Fully Developed Flow in Periodically Converging-diverging Microtubes

Laminar fully developed ow and pressure drop in linearly varying cross -section converging-diverging microtubes have been is investigated in this work. These microtubes are formed from a series of converging-diverging modules. An analytical model is developed for frictional ow resistance assuming parabolic axial velocity pro le in diverging and converging sections. Frictional ow resistance is f...