This project designed an experimental setup for the investigation of microjets and their impingement on flexible structures. The flow system includes a pressurized gas tank, pressure regulators, a filter, a mass-flow measuring tank, and a micro-nozzle. Continuum and free-molecular theory is used for the design of micro-nozzles with a throat diameter as small as 10 micrometers and reservoir pressures between 100 and 1000 Pa. A mass-flow measuring technique based on pressure-decay is developed for rates as small as 10E-13 kg/s.

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Creator

• Talbot, Patrick Micheal
• Roscoe, David Gregory
• LaPointe, Jennifer Yong

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 05D403M

Advisor

• Blandino, John J.
• Gatsonis, Nikolaos A.

Year

• 2005

Date created

• 2005-01-01

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Mechanical Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright