Micro- and Nanoflows: Modeling and Experiments

1 Methods of Modeling of Microflows and Nanoflows

Abstract

1.1 Considered Systems and Their Classification

1.2 Modeling of Rarefied Gas Microflows

1.3 Modeling of Moderately Dense Gases

1.4 Modeling of Dense Gas and Liquid Flows

1.5 Modeling of Disperse Fluid Flows

1.6 Modeling of Nanofluid Microflows

1.7 Molecular Dynamics Method

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2 Gasdynamic Structure and Stability of Gas Microjets

Abstract

2.1 Investigation and Application of Microjets

2.2 Stability of a Subsonic Plane Gas Microjet

2.3 Structure and Characteristics of Stability of Supersonic

Axisymmetric Microjets

2.4 Microjet Simulation with the Use of Macrojets

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3 Fluid Flows in Microchannels

Abstract

3.1 Methods of Determining the Hydraulic Resistance Coefficient in Tubes

3.2 Fabrication Technology and Characteristics of Microchannels

3.3 Experimental Arrangement

3.4 Errors of Microchannel Measurements

3.5 Fluid Flow in Straight Tubes

3.6 Fluid Flows in Curved Tubes

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4 Modeling of Micromixers

Abstract

4.1 Algorithm for Solving the Navier-Stokes Equations

4.2 Testing of the Algorithm

4.3 Mixing of Fluids in a Y-type Mixer at Low Reynolds Numbers

4.4 Mixing of Fluids in a T-type Micromixer at Moderate Reynolds Numbers

4.5 Experimental Study of Flow Regimes in a T-type Micromixer

4.6 Modeling of Two-phase Flows in a T-type Micromixer

4.7 Heat Transfer in a T-type Micromixer

4.8 Active Method of Mixing

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5 Modeling of Nanoflows

Abstract

5.1 Molecular Dynamics Simulation of a Channel Flow Generated by an

External Force

5.2 Algorithm of Modeling a Plane Nanoflow under Pseudo-periodic

Conditions

5.3 Algorithm of Modeling a Plane Nanoflow with a Prescribed Flow Rate

5.4 Specific Features of Nanoflows in MD Simulations

5.5 Diffusion of Molecules in Nanochannels

5.6 Self-diffusion of Molecules in Porous Media

5.7 Modeling of Nanofluid Separation with the Use of Nanomembranes

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6 Fluid Transport under Constrained Conditions

Abstract

6.2 On Fluid Viscosity in the Nanochannel

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Conclusions

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