An experimental and theoretical investigation of low Reynolds number, high subsonic Mach number, compressible gas flow in channels is presented. Nitrogen, helium, and argon gases were used. The channels were microfabricated on silicon wafers and were typically 100 μm wide, 104 μm long, and ranged in depth from 0.5 to 20 μm. The Knudsen number ranged from 10-3 to 0.4. The measured friction factor was in good agreement with theoretical predictions assuming isothermal, locally fully developed, first-order, slip flow.
Stereolithography is one of the rapid prototyping processes which uses a photopolymer as the raw material to build prototypes. The photopolymer absorbs energy by selective laser exposure. The curing effect starts when the absorbing energy exceeds a critical value, and the process is called photopolymerisation. The photopolymerisation changes the phase from liquid to solid. The cured volume can expand and then shrink on cooling. The process parameters such as the scanning speed, scanning path, scanning pitch, and the slicing thickness, lead to different shrinkage and curl distortion, so, the photopolymerisation process is a dynamic material behaviour. In this study, a dynamic finite element simulation code has been developed to simulate the photopolymerisation process. The simulated result for a suspended beam which corresponds to the process parameters shows that a short raster causes less curl distortion than a long raster. The experimental result agrees very well with the simulated result.
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