Event-Driven Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Hard-Sphere Gas Flows in Microchannels

Table 1

Flow configurations in Shear-Driven flow.

	Case A (Kn = 0.1)		Case B (Kn = 0.5)		Case C (Kn = 1.0)
	s/d = 4.0	s/d = 7.0	s/d = 4.0	s/d = 7.0	s/d = 4.0	s/d = 7.0
Channel height, (µm)	0.050	0.263	0.010	0.053	0.005	0.026
Global average pressure,	1639 kPa (s/d = 4.0), 306 kPa (s/d = 7.0)
Global average density,	26.07 kg/m^3 (s/d = 4.0), 4.87 kg/m^3 (s/d = 7.0)
Boundary conditions	Fully diffusive walls @300 K along -direction
	Periodicity along -direction