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Problem 2.196
A micro spiral pump consists of a spiral channel attached to a stationary plate. This plate has two ports,
one for fluid inlet and another 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 the stationary
plate is put in motion by the rotation of the top disk, which pulls the fluid through the spiral channel.
Consider a spiral channel with the geometry given by the equation
rD⌘✓ Cr0
, where
r0D146 m
is the starting radius,
r
is the distance from the spin axis, and
✓
, measured in radians, is the angular position
of a point in the spiral channel. Assume that the radius at the outlet is
rout D190 m
, that the top disk
rotates with a constant angular speed
!
, and that the fluid particles in contact with the rotating disk are
essentially stuck to it. Determine the constant
⌘
and the value of
!
(in rpm) such that after
1:25 rev
of the
top disk, the speed of the particles in contact with this disk is vD0:5 m=s at the outlet.
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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