Modeling and Influence Study of Gas Bubbles on Characteristics of a Piezoelectric Valve-Less Micropump

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Songjing Li ◽  
Jixiao Liu ◽  
Dan Jiang
Keyword(s):  
Flow Rate ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Dynamic Pressure ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Gas Bubbles ◽  
Video Camera ◽  
Pump Chamber ◽  
High Speed Video Camera ◽  
Outlet Flow ◽  
Trapped Gas

The aim of this paper is to develop a theoretical model of a piezoelectric valve-less micropump for liquid delivery with entrapped gas bubbles and evaluate the influence of gas bubbles on the dynamic characteristics of the micropump by using this model. In the model, we consider the vibration of piezoelectric diaphragm, the pressure loss through the nozzle/diffuser and the compressibility of working liquids with entrapped gas bubbles. In order to validate the developed model and make it useful as a design and prediction tool, experimental studies are carried out to investigate the flow rate and dynamic pressure inside the pump chamber when gas bubbles are absent or present in the micropump. The presence of gas bubbles inside the pump chamber is also observed with a high-speed video camera. The outlet flow rate of the micropump with different size of trapped gas bubbles are calculated and compared.

scholarly journals The effects of forced small-wavelength, finite-bandwidth initial perturbations and miscibility on the turbulent Rayleigh–Taylor instability

2015 ◽  
Vol 787 ◽  
pp. 50-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. S. Roberts ◽  
J. W. Jacobs
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Initial Perturbation ◽  
Mixing Layer ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Growth Parameter ◽  
Video Camera ◽  
Taylor Instability ◽  
Layer Width ◽  
High Speed Video Camera ◽  
Rayleigh Taylor Instability

Rayleigh–Taylor instability experiments are performed using both immiscible and miscible incompressible liquid combinations having a relatively large Atwood number of $A\equiv ({\it\rho}_{2}-{\it\rho}_{1})/({\it\rho}_{2}+{\it\rho}_{1})=0.48$. The liquid-filled tank is attached to a test sled that is accelerated downwards along a vertical rail system using a system of weights and pulleys producing approximately $1g$ net acceleration. The tank is backlit and images are digitally recorded using a high-speed video camera. The experiments are either initiated with forced initial perturbations or are left unforced. The forced experiments have an initial perturbation imposed by vertically oscillating the liquid-filled tank to produce Faraday waves at the interface. The unforced experiments rely on random interfacial fluctuations, resulting from background noise, to seed the instability. The main focus of this study is to determine the effects of forced initial perturbations and the effects of miscibility on the growth parameter, ${\it\alpha}$. Measurements of the mixing-layer width, $h$, are acquired, from which ${\it\alpha}$ is determined. It is found that initial perturbations of the form used in this study do not affect measured ${\it\alpha}$ values. However, miscibility is observed to strongly affect ${\it\alpha}$, resulting in a factor of two reduction in its value, a finding not previously observed in past experiments. In addition, all measured ${\it\alpha}$ values are found to be smaller than those obtained in previous experimental studies.

Experimental Study on Pressure Transients With Cavitation in Low Pressure Water-Hydraulic Pipeline

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Jiang ◽  
Cong Ren ◽  
Qing Guo
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Gas Bubbles ◽  
Video Camera ◽  
Low Pressure ◽  
Pressure Pulsations ◽  
Pressure Transients ◽  
Pressure Transducers ◽  
High Speed Video Camera ◽  
Pressure Water ◽  
Water Hydraulic

In this study, pressure transients are triggered by a steel ball, which is released from an upstream reservoir to hit a valve seat and shut off water flow in a horizontal straight copper pipeline. The pressure pulsations, cavitation and gas bubbles growth and collapse in the low pressure water-hydraulic pipeline are recorded by two pressure transducers and a high speed video camera, respectively. In addition, the influences of initial volume of gas bubbles in water and instant leakage in valve are investigated. The experimental results indicate that increasing initial gas bubble volume in water and the instant leakage of the valve will help to reduce magnitudes and numbers of pressure peaks during pressure transients. Then methods to reduce pressure pulsations in pipelines are put forward.

Image Analysis of Carry-Under by Falling Liquid Flow

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomohiko Ohtsuka ◽  
Naoki Haraguchi ◽  
Hiroyasu Ohtake ◽  
Yasuo Koizumi
Keyword(s):  
Flow Rate ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Flow Behavior ◽  
Wave Length ◽  
Video Camera ◽  
Water Jet ◽  
Water Pool ◽  
Nozzle Outlet ◽  
Pool Surface ◽  
High Speed Video Camera

Bubble carry-under into the water pool was examined. In experiments, a water jet from a nozzle of 5 mm in diameter plunged into the water pool. The distance between the nozzle outlet and the pool surface was 246 mm. Flow behavior in the water pool and also the state of the water jet surface were recorded with a high speed video camera. Following conclusions were obtained. When the flow rate of the water jet was small, the water jet disintegrated into small drops on the way from the nozzle outlet to the pool surface. The wave appearing position moved downward as the flow rate was increased. When the wave length reached the Kelvin-Helmholtz critical wave length, the water jet disintegrated into drops. When flow rate of the water jet was increased, the surface of the water jet became smooth and no perturbation was observed. The carry-under was not observed in this situation. When the flow rate of the water jet was further increased, large waves came to appear on the water jet surface. The wave appearing position moved upward as the flow rate was increased. Even if the wave length on the water jet reached the Kelvin-Helmholtz critical wave length, the water jet did not disintegrate into drops and the water jet plunges into the pool with large waves on the water jet. The penetration depth in this case was deep and the volume of the bubble carry-under was large compared with the case that the water jet disintegrated into drops.

Time Evolutions of Water Drops Impacting on a Rotating Disk

2011 ◽  
Vol 354-355 ◽  
pp. 609-614
Author(s):  
Jing Yin Li ◽  
Xiao Fang Yuan ◽  
Qiang Han
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Water Drop ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Rotating Disk ◽  
Deposition Process ◽  
Video Camera ◽  
Rossby Number ◽  
High Speed Video Camera ◽  
Water Drops ◽  
The Impact

Experimental studies of a water drop impinging on a rotating disk using a high-speed video camera have been performed. The photos of the impact were analyzed in detail. Three kinds of the deposition patterns were observed with the variation in Rossby number. It is found that Rossby number plays an important role in the deposition process of the drop impacting on the rotating disk, leading to some new stages not observed for drop impact on a stationary plate.

Evaluation of Load-Time Functions Due to Impact of Soft Missiles

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniela Ruch ◽  
Nico Herrmann ◽  
Harald S. Mu¨ller
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Video Camera ◽  
Commercial Aircraft ◽  
Explicit Finite Element ◽  
High Speed Video Camera ◽  
Measurement Results ◽  
Impact Phenomena ◽  
Simplified Calculation ◽  
The Impact

The threat spectrum of safety related structures has severely changed since September 11, 2001. The deterioration capability of large aircrafts impacting on structures has become aware in a dramatic manner. Simplified calculation models for aircraft impact are available but have not been verified for large commercial aircrafts. Based on this background, experimental studies are performed at the Materials and Testing Research Institute (MPA) Karlsruhe of the Universita¨t Karlsruhe (TH) to examine the shape and the peak loads of load-time functions induced by an impacting soft missile with a mass and stiffness distribution along the missile’s axis similar to a commercial aircraft onto a rigid target. Different levels of water filling for simulating the kerosene tanks can be realised to investigate their influence on the load-time function. The characterisation of the major impact phenomena and their variation due to changing test parameters is the foremost goal of these experiments. The missiles are accelerated up to the impact velocity using an air-pressure gun. Impact forces are measured with a piezoelectric measuring platform as well as with accelerometers positioned on the target. The impact is filmed using a high-speed video camera. The experimental setup, measurement results and their evaluation will be presented in detail. The experimental study forms the reference for accompanied numerical calculations using the explicit finite element code LS-DYNA. Thus, a numerical model validated on the experiments shall be generated in order to provide an enhanced confidence level for the future calculation of real impact scenarios. First simulation results will be shown and briefly compared to the solution using the Riera method. A possible enhancement of this analytical method based on the experiments is beyond the scope of the project.

scholarly journals Detonation effects of shallow buried explosive in sandy soil on target plate acceleration in a small-scale blast test

2018 ◽  
Vol 192 ◽  
pp. 02028
Author(s):  
Hassan Zulkifli Abu ◽  
Ibrahim Aniza ◽  
Mohamad Nor Norazman
Keyword(s):  
Sandy Soil ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Time History ◽  
Video Camera ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Target Plate ◽  
Air Blast ◽  
High Speed Video Camera ◽  
The Impact

Small-scale blast tests were carried out to observe and measure the influence of sandy soil towards explosive blast intensity. The tests were to simulate blast impact imparted by anti-vehicular landmine to a lightweight armoured vehicle (LAV). Time of occurrence of the three phases of detonation phase in soil with respect to upward translation time of the test apparatus were recorded using high-speed video camera. At the same time the target plate acceleration was measured using shock accelerometer. It was observed that target plate deformation took place at early stage of the detonation phase before the apparatus moved vertically upwards. Previous data of acceleration-time history and velocity-time history from air blast detonation were compared. It was observed that effects of soil funnelling on blast wave together with the impact from soil ejecta may have contributed to higher blast intensity that characterized detonation in soil, where detonation in soil demonstrated higher plate velocity compared to what occurred in air blast detonation.

In Situ Observation Method for Quantitative Evaluation of Solidification Phenomena and Solidification Cracks during Welding

2014 ◽  
Vol 782 ◽  
pp. 3-7
Author(s):  
Kenji Shinozaki ◽  
Motomichi Yamamoto ◽  
Kohta Kadoi ◽  
Peng Wen
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Video Camera ◽  
Solidification Cracking ◽  
In Situ Observation ◽  
High Speed Video Camera ◽  
Varestraint Test ◽  
Solidification Cracks ◽  
Observation Method ◽  
Solidification Crack

Solidification cracking during welding is very serious problem for practical use. Therefore, there are so many reports concerning solidification cracking. Normally, solidification cracking susceptibility of material is quantitatively evaluated using Trans-Varestraint test. On the other hand, local solidification cracking strain was tried to measure precisely using in-situ observation method, called MISO method about 30 years ago. Recently, digital high-speed video camera develops very fast and its image quality is very high. Therefore, we have started to observe solidification crack using in site observation method. In this paper, the local critical strain of a solidification crack was measured and the high temperature ductility curves of weld metals having different dilution ratios and different grain sizes to evaluate quantitatively the effects of dilution ratio and grain size on solidification cracking susceptibility by using an improved in situ observation method.

Study on Magnetic Barrel Machine Equipped with Three-Dimensional Arrangement of Magnets

2007 ◽  
Vol 329 ◽  
pp. 761-766 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Zhang ◽  
Masato Yoshioka ◽  
Shin-Ichiro Hira
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Permanent Magnets ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Video Camera ◽  
High Speed Video ◽  
High Speed Video Camera ◽  
The Media ◽  
Set Up

At present, a commercially available magnetic barrel machine equipped with permanent magnets has some faults arising from constructional reason. That is, grinding or finishing ability is different from place to place in the machining region, resulting in the limitation on the region we can use in the container of workpieces. Therefore, in this research, authors made the new magnetic barrel machine equipped with three dimensional (3D) magnet arrangement to overcome these faults. The grinding ability of the new 3D magnetic barrel machine converted was experimentally examined, and compared with that of the traditional magnetic barrel machine. As a result, it was shown that we can use much broader region in the new 3D machine. It was also shown that the grinding ability became higher. The distribution of barrel media in action was recorded by means of a high speed video camera. It was clarified that the media rose up higher and were distributed more uniformly in the container by the effect of the magnet block newly set up. It was supposed that this must be the reason for the above-mentioned improvement of grinding ability.

Dynamic Characterization of a Valveless Micropump Considering Entrapped Gas Bubbles

2013 ◽  
Vol 135 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Songjing Li ◽  
Jixiao Liu ◽  
Dan Jiang
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Simulation ◽  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Gas Bubbles ◽  
Chamber Pressure ◽  
Dynamic Characterization ◽  
Valveless Micropump ◽  
Performance Deterioration ◽  
Trapped Gas

Unexpected gas bubbles in microfluidic devices always bring the problems of clogging, performance deterioration, and even device functional failure. For this reason, the aim of this paper is to study the characterization variation of a valveless micropump under different existence conditions of gas bubbles based on a theoretical modeling, numerical simulation, and experiment. In the theoretical model, we couple the vibration of piezoelectric diaphragm, the pressure drop of the nozzle/diffuser and the compressibility of working liquid when gas bubbles are entrapped. To validate the theoretical model, numerical simulation and experimental studies are carried out to investigate the variation of the pump chamber pressure influenced by the gas bubbles. Based on the numerical simulation and the experimental data, the outlet flow rates of the micropump with different size of trapped gas bubbles are calculated and compared, which suggests the influence of the gas bubbles on the dynamic characterization of the valveless micropump.

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