The characteristics of fully-developed, laminar, pressure-driven, incompressible flow in rough circular microchannels are studied. A novel analytical model is developed that predicts the increase in pressure drop due to wall roughness in microtubes. The wall roughness is assumed to posses a Gaussian isotropic distribution. The present model is compared with experimental data, collected by other researchers and good agreement is observed.

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