Quantification of thermally-driven flows in microsystems using Boltzmann equation in deterministic and stochastic contexts

1 code implementation • 3 May 2019 • Shashank Jaiswal, Aaron Pikus, Andrew Strongrich, Israel B. Sebastião, Jingwei Hu, Alina A. Alexeenko

When the flow is sufficiently rarefied, a temperature gradient, for example, between two walls separated by a few mean free paths, induces a gas flow---an observation attributed to the thermo-stress convection effects at microscale.

Computational Physics 76P05, 82B40, 82C40, 82D05, 35Q20, 65T50, 65M60, 65M70, 65Y05