Mixed convection in a vertical parallel plate microchannel

Avci M., AYDIN O.

JOURNAL OF HEAT TRANSFER-TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASME, vol.129, no.2, pp.162-166, 2007 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 129 Issue: 2
  • Publication Date: 2007
  • Doi Number: 10.1115/1.2422741
  • Journal Name: JOURNAL OF HEAT TRANSFER-TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASME
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.162-166
  • Keywords: microfluidics, vertical microchannel, mixed convection, temperature jump, velocity slip, HEAT-TRANSFER, FLUID-FLOW, GAS
  • Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University Affiliated: No

Abstract

In this study, fully developed mixed convective heat transfer of a Newtonian fluid in an open-ended vertical parallel plate microchannel is analytically investigated by taking the velocity slip and the temperature jump at the wall into account. The effects of the mixed convection parameter, Gr/Re, the Knudsen number Kn, and the ratio of wall temperature difference, r(T), on the microchannel hydrodynamic and thermal behaviors are determined. Finally, a Nu = f(Gr/Re, Kn, r(T)) expression is developed.