Microscale Fluid-Thermal Phenomena Based On The Boltzmann-ESBGK Model

The research work in this PhD dissertation is focused on numerical investigations of micro-scale fluid-thermal phenomena. A comprehensive deterministic Boltzmann-ESBGK model has been developed and applied to several micro-scale problems. It helps to better understand the physics in an effcient and economic way comparing to experiments. It also shows great potentials in uncertainty quantification study of MEMS reliability.

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Xiaohui Guo has obtained her Ph.D. degree in the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Purdue University in May 2009. Her research interests are computational rarefied gas dynamics and its applications to microscale and nanoscale thermofluidics, thermal transport in microdevices, thermally-driven gas flows and aerodynamic damping in MEMS.