Bioinspired Pumping In An Array Of Ocsillating Plates In Intermediate Reynolds Number Regime Farhad Saffaraval by Farhad Saffaraval instant download after payment.

Pumps are important to applications across a wide range of scales. Most of traditional

applications occur within a range where inertia is the dominating factor influencing

the pump performance, and hence many practical designs are based on mechanisms

that rely on this assumption. As one moves towards smaller devices, however, the

increasing effect of viscosity renders these traditional mechanisms ineffective. The

current work looks towards a bio-inspired system consisting of an array of oscillating

plates to contend with this challenge. The plates are placed within a channel, and the

pumping performance generated is examined for a small range of Reynolds numbers

intermediate between inertial and viscous regimes (0.1 < Re < 10).