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The current research of the valveless piezoelectric pump focuses on increasing the flow rate and pressure differential. Compared with the valve piezoelectric pump, the valveless one has excellent performances in simple structure, low cost, and easy miniaturization. So, their important development trend is the mitigation of their weakness, and the multi-function integration. The flow in a spiral tube element is sensitive to the element attitude caused by the Coriolis force, and that a valveless piezoelectric pump is designed by applying this phenomenon. The pump has gyroscopic effect, and has both the actuator function of fluid transfer and the sensor function, which can obtain the angular velocity when its attitude changes. First, the present paper analyzes the flow characteristics in the tube, obtains the calculation formula for the pump flow, and identifies the relationship between pump attitude and flow, which clarifies the impact of flow and driving voltage, frequency, spiral line type and element attitude, and verifies the gyroscopic effect of the pump. Then, the finite element simulation is used to verify the theory. Finally, a pump is fabricated for experimental testing of the relationship between pump attitude and pressure differential. Experimental results show that when Archimedes spiral θ=4π is selected for the tube design, and the rotation speed of the plate is 70 r/min, the pressure differential is 88.2 Pa, which is 1.5 times that of 0 r/min rotation speed. The spiral-tube-type valveless piezoelectric pump proposed can turn the element attitude into a form of pressure output, which is important for the multi-function integration of the valveless piezoelectric pump and for the development of civil gyroscope in the future.

Existing researches on no-moving part valves in valve-less piezoelectric pumps mainly concentrate on pipeline valves and chamber bottom valves,which leads to the complex structure and manufacturing process of pump channel and chamber bottom.Furthermore,position fixed valves with respect to the inlet and outlet also makes the adjustability and controllability of flow rate worse.In order to overcome these shortcomings,this paper puts forward a novel implantable structure of valve-less piezoelectric pump with hemisphere-segments in the pump chamber.Based on the theory of flow around bluff-body,the flow resistance on the spherical and round surface of hemisphere-segment is different when fluid flows through,and the macroscopic flow resistance differences thus formed are also different.A novel valve-less piezoelectric pump with hemisphere-segment bluff-body(HSBB)is presented and designed.HSBB is the no-moving part valve.By the method of volume and momentum comparison,the stress on the bluff-body in the pump chamber is analyzed.The essential reason of unidirectional fluid pumping is expounded,and the flow rate formula is obtained.To verify the theory,a prototype is produced.By using the prototype,experimental research on the relationship between flow rate,pressure difference,voltage,and frequency has been carried out,which proves the correctness of the above theory.This prototype has six hemisphere-segments in the chamber filled with water,and the effective diameter of the piezoelectric bimorph is 30mm.The experiment result shows that the flow rate can reach 0.50 mL/s at the frequency of 6 Hz and the voltage of 110 V.Besides,the pressure difference can reach 26.2 mm H2O at the frequency of 6 Hz and the voltage of 160 V.This research proposes a valve-less piezoelectric pump with hemisphere-segment bluff-body,and its validity and feasibility is verified through theoretical analysis and experiment.

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.