Abstract
A viscous pump is a device such that a cylindrical rotor is eccentrically placed in a channel, so that the viscous resistance between the small and large gaps between the cylinder and the channel walls generate a net flow along the channel. Assuming that the gaps between the cylinder and the channel walls are small compared to the radius of the rotor, the hydrodynamic theory of lubrication may be utilized to study the viscous pump. Here lubrication theory is used to obtain an analytical solution which relates the flowrate, rotation rate, pressure drop and applied torque as functions of two geometric parameters for a viscous pump. This analysis differs from a previous similar study in two ways. Firstly, certain integrals are evaluated explicitly, and secondly the standard no-slip boundary condition of fluid mechanics has been replaced with the Navier boundary condition which allows a degree of tangential velocity slip on all solid boundaries. Comparison with the prior known solution shows that the solution obtained in this study predicts a slightly improved pump performance for the case of no-slip. For the case of slip, our results demonstrate that the performance of the pump is significantly improved.
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Note that in the 6th edn of Gradshteyn and Ryzhik, Formula 3.241.4 has a typographical error, as detailed in the Errata located online at http://www.mathtable.com/gr/index.html.
Abbreviations
- a :
-
cylinder radius (2.4)
- A ± n :
- B :
- h, h ± :
-
gap distance, gap distance in the top/bottom gap (2.4)
- I ± n,k :
- k :
-
arbitrary parameter (2.12)
- ℓ:
-
slip length (2.3)
- L, L ± :
-
torque, torque in the top/bottom gap (2.13)
- n :
-
arbitrary parameter (2.12)
- P, P ± :
-
pressure, pressure in the top/bottom gap (2.2)
- q, q ± :
-
flowrate, flowrate in the top/bottom gap (2.8)
- U :
-
characteristic velocity (2.21)
- v x , v ± x :
-
x-component of velocity, x-component of velocity in the top/bottom gap (2.1)
- v y :
-
y-component of velocity (2.1)
- x :
-
Cartesian coordinate (2.1)
- y :
-
Cartesian coordinate (2.1)
- δ :
-
total gap distance (2.23)
- Δ :
-
quantity change/difference (2.11)
- Γ :
-
Gamma function (C.3)
- η :
-
measure of cylinder eccentricity (2.23)
- μ :
-
viscosity (2.2)
- θ :
-
angle measure (A.3)
- τ xy :
-
shear stress (2.13)
- Ω :
-
rotation rate (2.4)
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This work is funded by the Discovery Project scheme of the Australian Research Council, and the authors gratefully acknowledge this support. JMH is grateful to the Australian Research Council for provision of an Australian Professorial Fellowship. The authors also acknowledge the helpful suggestions of the referees whose comments materially improved the presentation.
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Appendices
Appendix A: Integrals for slip solution
It is a simple matter to show that the equation for h ±(x) is given by
hence we have
Making the substitution x = a sin θ this may be written
This integral is in a form which appears in Gradshteyn and Ryzhik (2000). In particular, using Formulae 2.553.3 and 2.554.1 we find that
Similarly, using Formulae 2.553.3 and 2.554.2 it is easy to show that
Appendix B: Integrals for no-slip solution
Here we need to evaluate I ±3,0 , I ±2,0 and I ±1,0 . We have already derived expressions for I ±2,0 and I ±1,0 . Using Formulae 2.553.3, 2.554.1 and 2.554.2 from Gradshteyn and Ryzhik (2000) we have
Appendix C: Approximate integrals for no-slip solution
In Day and Stone (2000) the approximations
and
are employed. These approximations are justified since the lubrication theory is applicable for h ± ≪ a and as such the flow properties in the gap vary on the scale (h ± a) ≪ a. From Gradshteyn and Ryzhik (2000), Formula 3.241.4 we haveFootnote 1
which are obviously significantly simpler than the expressions obtained above. Substituting the dimensionless variables and the geometric parameters η and δ we have
Now, substituting the above expression into Eqs. (2.33), (2.34) and (2.35) and performing some tedious algebra it may be shown that we recover Eq. (3.16) of Day and Stone (2000).
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Matthews, M.T., Hill, J.M. Lubrication analysis of the viscous micro/nano pump with slip. Microfluid Nanofluid 4, 439–449 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10404-007-0193-0
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