Regular valveless piezoelectric pumps have rectifying elements outside their chambers to produce net flow.These rectifying elements outside the chamber will increase the overall volume of the pump and prevent its minimization.Valveless piezoelectric pump with unsymmetrical slopes elements(USE),proposed in this paper,differs from other valveless pumps in that it is easy to be minimized by developing the chamber bottom as such a rectifying element.In this research,the working principle of the proposed pump was analyzed first.Numerical models were thereby established and numerical simulation was conducted to the chamber flow field with the method of time-dependent velocity.The effects of the USEs on the flow field in the chamber were shown clearly in simulation.And the particular feature of flow field in the chamber was discovered.It behaves a complex flow field,in which strong turbulent occurs companying a lot of vortexes in different directions and different sizes.This feature is just opposite to what regular piezoelectric pumps expect:a moderate flow field.The turbulent flow could be used to have different liquids stirred and well mixed in the chamber to produce homogeneous solution,emulsion or turbid liquid.Meanwhile,numerical simulation also presents the effect of the angles difference of the two slopes upon the flow field,and upon the flow rate of the pump,which fits to the theoretical analysis.Experiments with the proposed pump were also conducted to verify the numerical results.In these experiments,six USEs with different slope angles were used for efficiency tests,which proved the validity and reliability of the numerical analysis.The data obtained from numerical analysis agree well with that from the experiments.The errors ranged from 4.4% to 14.8% with their weighted average error being 9.7%.
In the traditional flow-resistance-differential (FRD) type valve-less piezoelectric pump,the generated outflow and pressure are discontinuous because of the inherent periodicity and fluctuation of the pump.To overcome these drawbacks,utilizing the bending vibration of piezoelectric bimorph to drive fluid was conducted.However,our investigation on the current status of this piezoelectric bimorph pump shows that larger driving force and vibration amplitude are required for fluid pumping;the pumping can be realized through the centrifugal force;and the mechanism of fluid pumping is no longer further studied.Based on these cases,the paper designed a piezoelectric-stack pump with variable-cross-section oscillating (VCSO) vibrator by imitating the swing of the caudal-fin of tuna,and the pump is neither the rotating type nor the volumetric type according to the taxonomy.The interaction between the oscillating vibrator and the fluid parcel is firstly analyzed from the viewpoint of momentum conservation,and the analytical expression of pump flow rate is obtained.Then the modal and harmonic response analyses on the vibrator immerged in water are carried out.From the analyses the first two orders resonance frequencies are 832 Hz and 1 939 Hz,respectively,and the peak value of the tip amplitude is 0.6 mm.Laser Doppler vibrometer is used to measure both the frequency and vibration amplitude,and the determined first two orders resonance frequencies are 617 Hz and 1 356 Hz,respectively.The measured tip amplitude reaches to the peak value of 0.3 mm.At last,experimental measurement for the flow rates with different driving frequencies is conducted.The results show that the flow rate can reach 560 mL/min at 1 370 Hz when the pump runs under the backpressure of 30 mm water column.And the flow rate is as much as 560% of that of experiment results carried out by researchers from Brazil.The proposed pump innovates in both theory and taxonomy;in addition,the pump overcomes the drawbacks such as large flow fluctuation and low flow rate
HU XiaoqiZHANG JianhuiHUANG YiXIA QixiaoHUANG WeiqingZHAO Chunsheng
Typically,liquid pump and liquids mixer are two separate devices.The invention of piezoelectric pump makes it possible to integrate the two devices.Hower,the existing piezoelectric mixing-pumps are larger because the need the space outside the chamber,and another shortcome of them is that they cannot adjust the mixing ratio of two liquids.In this paper,a new piezoelectric pump being capable of integrating mixer and pump is presented,based on the theory of the piezoelectric pump with the unsymmetrical slopes element(USE).Besides the features of two inlets and one outlet,the piezoelectric pump has a rotatable unsymmetrical slopes element(RUSE).When the pump works,two fluids flow into the inlet channels respectively.Then the RUSE controls the ratio of the two flows by adjusting the flow resistances of the two inlet channels.The fluids form a net flow due to the USE principle,while they are mixed into a homogeneous solution due to strong turbulence flow field and complex vortices generated by RUSE in the chamber.And then the solution flows through the outlet.Firstly,the theoretical analysis on this pump is performed.Meanwhile,the flow field in the chamber is calculated and simulated.And then,the relationship between the flows of the two channels and the rotating angle of the RUSE is set up and analyzed.Finally,experiment with the proposed pump is carried out to verify the numerical results.A RUSE with 20° slope angle is used in the experiment.Four sets of data are tested with the RUSE at the rotating angles of 0°,6°,11°,and 16°,respectively,corresponding to the numerical models.The experimental results show that the empirical data and the theoretical data share the same trend.The maximum error between the theoretical flow and the experimental flow is 11.14%,and the maximum error between the theoretical flow ratio of the two inlets and the experimental one is 2.5%.The experiment verified the theoretical analysis.The proposed research provides a new idea for integration of micro liquids mixer and micro liquids pum
＜正＞Due to the drawbacks of the traditional valveless piezoelectric pump,such as backflow,large fluctuation,low...
Gao Lu Zhang Jianhui~* Hu Xiaoqi Huang Yi State Key Laboratory of Mechanics and Control of Mechanical Structures,Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics,Nanjing 210016
