Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow in Minichannels and Microchannels

About the Authors

Preface

Nomenclature

Greek Symbols

Subscripts

Superscripts

Operators

Chapter 1. Introduction

1.1 Need for smaller flow passages

1.2 Flow channel classification

1.3 Basic heat transfer and pressure drop considerations

1.4 The potential and special demands of fluidic biological applications

1.5 Summary

1.6 Practice problems

References

Chapter 2. Single-Phase Gas Flow in Microchannels

2.1 Rarefaction and wall effects in microflows

2.2 Gas flow regimes in microchannels

2.3 Pressure-driven steady slip flows in microchannels

2.4 Pulsed gas flows in microchannels

2.5 Thermally driven gas microflows and vacuum generation

2.6 Heat transfer in microchannels

2.7 Future research needs

2.8 Solved examples

2.9 Practice problems

References

Chapter 3. Single-Phase Liquid Flow in Minichannels and Microchannels

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Pressure drop in single-phase liquid flow

3.3 Total pressure drop in a microchannel heat exchanger

3.4 Roughness effects

3.5 Heat transfer in microchannels

3.6 Roughness effects on heat transfer in microchannels and minichannels

3.7 Heat transfer enhancement with nanofluids

3.8 Microchannel and minichannel geometry optimization

3.9 Enhanced microchannels

3.10 Solved examples

3.11 Practice problems

Appendix A

References

Chapter 4. Single-Phase Electrokinetic Flow in Microchannels

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Electrical double layer field

4.3 Electroosmotic flow in microchannels

4.4 Experimental techniques for studying electroosmotic flow

4.5 Electroosmotic flow in heterogeneous microchannels

4.6 AC electroosmotic flow

4.7 Electrokinetic mixing

4.8 Electrokinetic sampl