Publication detail

Computational study of a novel design of a macroscale piston pump

MACHŮ, T. POCHYLÝ, F. ŠULC, J.

English title

Computational study of a novel design of a macroscale piston pump

Type

journal article in Scopus

Language

en

Original abstract

This paper deals with a novel valveless piston pump, which is using modified Venturi diodes as a replacement for common check valves. The pump characteristic was obtained from CFD simulations in ANSYS Fluent software. The simulations were carried out on a simplified 2D geometry model of the pump. The dependencies of the volumetric efficiency of the pump on parameters of piston motion (frequency and amplitude) and backpressure are the results of the simulations. The principle of the pump is based on different rates of dissipation in the discharge and the suction diode. The paper also presents a qualitative analysis of dissipation function for turbulent flow, which provides further insight into the principle of valveless pumping.

English abstract

This paper deals with a novel valveless piston pump, which is using modified Venturi diodes as a replacement for common check valves. The pump characteristic was obtained from CFD simulations in ANSYS Fluent software. The simulations were carried out on a simplified 2D geometry model of the pump. The dependencies of the volumetric efficiency of the pump on parameters of piston motion (frequency and amplitude) and backpressure are the results of the simulations. The principle of the pump is based on different rates of dissipation in the discharge and the suction diode. The paper also presents a qualitative analysis of dissipation function for turbulent flow, which provides further insight into the principle of valveless pumping.

Keywords in English

valveless piston pump, fluidic diodes, CFD, dissipation function

Released

30.06.2019

Publisher

Západočeská univerzita v Plzni

Location

Plzeň

ISSN

1802-680X

Volume

13

Number

1

Pages from–to

29–38

Pages count

10

BIBTEX


@article{BUT158111,
  author="Tomáš {Machů} and František {Pochylý} and Jan {Šulc},
  title="Computational study of a novel design of a macroscale piston pump",
  year="2019",
  volume="13",
  number="1",
  month="June",
  pages="29--38",
  publisher="Západočeská univerzita v Plzni",
  address="Plzeň",
  issn="1802-680X"
}