Research Article

Significance of Rarefaction, Streamwise Conduction, and Viscous Dissipation on the Extended Graetz–Nusselt Problem: The Case of Finite-Length Microchannels with Prescribed Wall Heat Flux

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versus for . No viscous dissipation . The arrow indicates increasing values of . (black broken line) corresponds to a constant function . The blue curves correspond to increasing wall heat flux. The red curves correspond to decreasing wall heat flux. (a) ; (b) .
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