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https://tickle.utk.edu/bme/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2025/07/Narayan-Aluru.jpg1200630Abstract: Understanding fluid physics at nanometer scale is important for many applications including water purification, gas separations, energy storage, DNA sequencing, etc. Molecular scale phenomena such as finite size of the molecule compared to the pore/slit size, restricted translational and rotational motions, ballistic diffusion, etc. pose challenges to the classical continuum theory of fluids. To […]