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The effect of surface roughness on developed laminar flow in microtubes is investigated. The tube boundary is defined by \({r=R\left[{1+\varepsilon\, {\rm sin}\left( {\lambda \theta }\right)}\right]}\), with R representing the reference radius and \({\varepsilon}\) and λ the roughness parameters. The momentum equation is solved using Fourier–Galerkin–Tau method with slip at the boundary. A novel semi-analytical method is developed to predict friction factor and pressure drop in corrugated rough microtubes for continuum flow and slip flow that are not restricted to small values of \({\varepsilon \lambda }\) . The analytical solution collapses onto the perturbation solution ofDuan and Muzychka (J. Fluids Eng., 130:031102, 2008) for small enough values of \({\varepsilon \lambda }\) .
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Akyildiz, F.T., Siginer, D.A. Fully developed laminar slip and no-slip flow in rough microtubes. Z. Angew. Math. Phys. 62, 741–748 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00033-011-0144-1
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