The latest paper in this area is probably by M. Turowski et al. "High-Fidelity and Behavioral Simulation of Air Damping in MEMS", Intern. Conf. on Modeling and Simulation of Microsystems-MSM'99, San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA. It contains references to other papers. Also by the same author: "Squeeze Film Behavior in MEMS for Large Amplitude Motion - 3D Simulations and Nonlinear Circuit/Behavioral Models" IEEE/VIUF Int. Conf. BMAS'98, Orlando, Oct. 27-28, 1998 Regards, Andrzej Prochaska