RETRACTED: Molecular dynamic simulation of Argon boiling flow inside smooth and rough microchannels by considering the effects of cubic barriers

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal ( https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies/article-withdrawal ). This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor-in-Chief. Post-publication, the editor discovered suspicious changes in authorship between the original submission and the revised version of this paper. The paper was originally submitted by Majid Zarringhalam (Original First Author), Davood Toghraie (Original Corresponding Author) and one other author. During revision one author was removed. The authors Sara Rostami (New First and Corresponding Author), As'ad Alizadeh and Aysan Shahsavar Goldanlou were added to the revised paper without explanation and without the exceptional approval by the journal editor, which is contrary to the journal policy on changes to authorship. The editor reached out to the authors for an explanation, but they failed to provide a satisfactory explanation to these changes. Post-publication, an investigation conducted on behalf of the journal by Elsevier's Research Integrity & Publishing Ethics team also discovered that acceptance of this article was partly based upon the positive advice of a reviewer who was closely linked to two of the authors Davood Toghraie and Sara Rostami. This compromised the editorial process and breached the journal's policies. The acceptance of this article was also based on information from a reviewer report that was submitted from an email account that does not appear to be associated with a legitimate researcher account. This also compromised the editorial process and breached the journal's policies. Overall, the editor has determined that the authorship and the findings of the article cannot be relied upon, and has decided to retract the article. The authors disagree with the retraction of the article and dispute the grounds for it.