| Negative Knudsen force on heated microbeams | |
Zhu TS; Ye WJ; Zhang J(张俊) ; Zhu, TS (reprint author), Hong Kong Univ Sci & Technol, Dept Mech Engn, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Peoples R China
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| Source Publication | Physical Review E
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| 2011 | |
| Volume | 84Issue:5Pages:56316 |
| ISSN | 1539-3755 |
| Abstract | Knudsen force acting on a heated microbeam adjacent to a cold substrate in a rarefied gas is a mechanical force created by unbalanced thermal gradients. The measured force has its direction pointing towards the side with a lower thermal gradient and its magnitude vanishes in both continuum and free-molecule limits. In our previous study, negative Knudsen forces were discovered at the high Knudsen regime before diminishing in the free-molecule limit. Such a phenomenon was, however, neither observed in experiment [A. Passian et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 124503 (2003)], nor captured in the latest numerical study [J. Nabeth et al., Phys. Rev. E 83, 066306 (2011)]. In this paper, the existence of such a negative Knudsen force is further confirmed using both numerical simulation and theoretical analysis. The asymptotic order of the Knudsen force near the collisionless limit is analyzed and the analytical expression of its leading term is provided, from which approaches for the enhancement of negative Knudsen forces are proposed. The discovered phenomenon could find its applications in novel mechanisms for pressure sensing and actuation. |
| Keyword | Boltzmann-equation Spherical-particle Numerical-analysis Rarefied-gas Thermophoresis Pressure Model Flow |
| Subject Area | Physics |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevE.84.056316 |
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| Indexed By | SCI ; EI |
| Language | 英语 |
| WOS ID | WOS:000297467300007 |
| WOS Keyword | BOLTZMANN-EQUATION ; SPHERICAL-PARTICLE ; NUMERICAL-ANALYSIS ; RAREFIED-GAS ; THERMOPHORESIS ; PRESSURE ; MODEL ; FLOW |
| WOS Research Area | Physics |
| WOS Subject | Physics, Fluids & Plasmas ; Physics, Mathematical |
| Funding Organization | This work is supported in part by Award No. SA-C0040/UK-C0016, made by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, and in part by Hong Kong Research Grants Council under Competitive Earmarked Research Grant No. 621408. |
| Department | LHD微尺度和非平衡流动 |
| Classification | 一类 |
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| Document Type | 期刊论文 |
| Identifier | http://dspace.imech.ac.cn/handle/311007/45180 |
| Collection | 高温气体动力学国家重点实验室 |
| Corresponding Author | Zhu, TS (reprint author), Hong Kong Univ Sci & Technol, Dept Mech Engn, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Peoples R China |
| Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | Zhu TS,Ye WJ,Zhang J,et al. Negative Knudsen force on heated microbeams[J]. Physical Review E,2011,84,5,:56316. |
| APA | Zhu TS,Ye WJ,张俊,&Zhu, TS .(2011).Negative Knudsen force on heated microbeams.Physical Review E,84(5),56316. |
| MLA | Zhu TS,et al."Negative Knudsen force on heated microbeams".Physical Review E 84.5(2011):56316. |
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