Simulation of a piezoelectrically actuated valveless micropump

Bin Fan; Gangbing Song; Fazle Hussain

doi:10.1117/12.544172

29 July 2004 Simulation of a piezoelectrically actuated valveless micropump

Bin Fan, Gangbing Song, Fazle Hussain

Proceedings Volume 5389, Smart Structures and Materials 2004: Smart Electronics, MEMS, BioMEMS, and Nanotechnology; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.544172
Event: Smart Structures and Materials, 2004, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

Simulation of piezoelectrically actuated valveless microupump (PVAM) indicates that both the pumping rate and membrane deflection amplitude will increase with the increase of the actuating frequency at a low frequency range (<7.5 kHz). However, because of the electro-mechanical-fluid coupling, the membrane deflects in an undesirable way at high frequencies. This will lower the pumping rate at high frequencies (>7.5 kHz). At even higher frequencies (>50 kHz), the pumping rate will decrease further because the deflection amplitude decreases. This agrees with reported experimental results. The changing membrane deflection shape at various frequencies clearly plays an important role in the performance of the pump.

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Bin Fan, Gangbing Song, and Fazle Hussain "Simulation of a piezoelectrically actuated valveless micropump", Proc. SPIE 5389, Smart Structures and Materials 2004: Smart Electronics, MEMS, BioMEMS, and Nanotechnology, (29 July 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.544172

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