Analysis of the Flow Rate Characteristics of Valveless Piezoelectric Pump with Fractal-like Y-shape Branching Tubes

被引:30
作者
Huang Jun [1 ]
Zhang Jianhui [1 ]
Wang Shouyin [2 ]
Liu Weidong [1 ]
机构
[1] Nanjing Univ Aeronaut & Astronaut, State Key Lab Mech & Control Mech Struct, Nanjing 210016, Jiangsu, Peoples R China
[2] Chinese Acad Sci, Changchun Inst Opt Fine Mech & Phys, Changchun 130033, Peoples R China
基金
中国国家自然科学基金;
关键词
piezoelectric; pump; valveless; fractal-like Y-shape branching tube; HEAT-TRANSFER; RESISTANCE; NETWORKS;
D O I
10.3901/CJME.2014.03.628
中图分类号
TH [机械、仪表工业];
学科分类号
0802 ;
摘要
Microchannel heat sink with high heat transfer coefficients has been extensively investigated due to its wide application prospective in electronic cooling. However, this cooling system requires a separate pump to drive the fluid transfer, which is uneasy to minimize and reduces their reliability and applicability of the whole system. In order to avoid these problems, valveless piezoelectric pump with fractal-like Y-shape branching tubes is proposed. Fractal-like Y-shape branching tube used in microchannel heat sinks is exploited as no-moving-part valve of the valveless piezoelectric pump. In order to obtain flow characteristics of the pump, the relationship between tube structure and flow rate of the pump is studied. Specifically, the flow resistances of fractal-like Y-shape branching tubes and flow rate of the pump are analyzed by using fractal theory. Then, finite element software is employed to simulate the flow field of the tube, and the relationships between pressure drop and flow rate along merging and dividing flows are obtained. Finally, valveless piezoelectric pumps with fractal-like Y-shape branching tubes with different fractal dimensions of diameter distribution are fabricated, and flow rate experiment is conducted. The experimental results show that the flow rate of the pump increases with the rise of fractal dimension of the tube diameter. When fractal dimension is 3, the maximum flow rate of the valveless pump is 29.16 mL/min under 100 V peak to peak (13 Hz) power supply, which reveals the relationship between flow rate and fractal dimensions of tube diameter distribution. This paper investigates the flow characteristics of valveless piezoelectric pump with fractal-like Y-shape branching tubes, which provides certain references for valveless piezoelectric pump with fractal-like Y-shape branching tubes in application on electronic chip cooling.
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页码:628 / 634
页数:7
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