“…Even when the no-slip condition seems to hold at macroscopic scale, it could be violated at microscopic and molecular levels [16,17,20,21,27,28,[35][36][37][38][39][40][41] with direct impact on microfluidic and nanofluidic systems [42][43][44] and possible ensuing consequences on the macroscopic behavior [34]. A prominent exception for the validity of the no-slip condition is the flow of very low density gas where the mean free path of the molecules are comparable in size to the dimensions of the flow channel [1,4,7,42,45,46]. The effect of the relation between the mean free path and the dimensions of flow channels on slip can be quantified by the use of Knudsen number, defined as the ratio of molecular mean free path to a characteristic length scale, which is mainly used for the flow of gases although it may also be applied to liquids [32,42,43,47,48].…”