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Continuum-mechanic derivation of the entrainment of rarefied gases induced by a surface wave along walls (or peristaltic transport) in a confined parallel-plane microchannel is conducted by the perturbation method. Both no-slip and slip flow cases are investigated with the former ones matched with the previous approach by Fung and Yih. Critical reflux values due to first order slip-flow effects become trivial for the free pumping case, and decrease due to second order slip-flow effects after we compared them with no-slip cases.
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Received 27 August 1999 and Received in final form 10 January 2000
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Chu, WH., Fang, J. Peristaltic transport in a slip flow. Eur. Phys. J. B 16, 543–547 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/s100510070215
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