Dynamics 2e 191
Problem 2.134
A micro spiral pump consists of a spiral channel attached to a stationary plate. This plate has two ports,
one for fluid inlet and the other for outlet, the outlet being farther from the center of the plate than the
inlet. The system is capped by a rotating disk. The fluid trapped between the rotating disk and stationary
plate is put in motion by the rotation of the top disk, which pulls the fluid through the spiral channel. With
this in mind, consider a channel with geometry given by the equation
rD⌘✓ Cr0
, where
⌘D12
m is
called the polar slope,
r0D146
m is the radius at the inlet,
r
is the distance from the spin axis, and
✓
,
measured in radians, is the angular position of a point in the spiral channel. If the top disk rotates with a
constant angular speed
!D30;000 rpm
, and assuming that the fluid particles in contact with the rotating
disk are essentially stuck to it, determine the velocity and acceleration of one such fluid particle when it is
at
rD170
m. Express the answer using the component system shown (which rotates with the top disk).
Photo credit: “Design and Analysis of a Surface Micromachined Spiral-Channel Viscous Pump,” by M. I. Kilani, P. C. Galambos, Y. S. Haik,
C. H. Chen, Journal of Fluids Engineering, Vol. 125, pp. 339–344, 2003.
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