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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.

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.