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| Title: | A macromodel for squeeze-film air damping in the free-molecule regime |
| Authors: | Hong, Gang
Ye, Wenjing |
| Keywords: | Damping
Flow simulation
Micromechanical resonators
Monte Carlo methods |
| Issue Date: | Jun-2009 |
| Citation: | Physics of fluids, v. 22, no. 1, January 2010, p. 012001 |
| Abstract: | A three-dimensional Monte Carlo (MC) simulation approach is developed for the accurate prediction of the squeeze-film air damping on microresonators in the free-molecule gas regime. Based on the MC simulations and the analytical traveling-time distribution, a macromodel, which relates air damping directly with device dimensions and operation parameters, is constructed. This model provides an efficient tool for the design of high-performance microresonators. The accuracy of the macromodel is validated through the modeling of the quality factors of several microresonators. It has been found that the relative errors of the quality factors of two resonators, as compared with experimental data, are 3.9% and 5.7%, respectively. The agreements between the macromodel results and MC simulation results, on the other hand, are excellent in all cases considered. |
| Rights: | Copyright (2010) American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics. The following article appeared in Physics of Fluids, v. 22, no. 1, January 2010, p. 012001 and may be found at http://link.aip.org/link/PHFLE6/v22/i1/p012001/s1 |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1783.1/6624 |
| Appears in Collections: | MECH Journal/Magazine Articles
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