Review Article

Critical Review of Fluid Flow Physics at Micro- to Nano‐scale Porous Media Applications in the Energy Sector

Figure 3

Schematic of the Knudsen layer near a boundary wall. The property in KL is discontinuous across which certain slip and jump conditions expressing conservation of momentum, mass, and energy are applied. The KL region is in nonequilibrium, whereas the bulk fluid flow region is in equilibrium.