Pumps are important to applications across a wide range of scales. Most of traditionalapplications occur within a range where inertia is the dominating factor influencingthe pump performance, and hence many practical designs are based on mechanismsthat rely on this assumption. As one moves towards smaller devices, however, theincreasing effect of viscosity renders these traditional mechanisms ineffective. Thecurrent work looks towards a bio-inspired system consisting of an array of oscillatingplates to contend with this challenge. The plates are placed within a channel, and thepumping performance generated is examined for a small range of Reynolds numbersintermediate between inertial and viscous regimes (0.1 &lt; Re &lt; 10).

BIO-INSPIRED PUMPING IN AN ARRAY OF OCSILLATING PLATES IN INTERMEDIATE REYNOLDS NUMBER REGIME PDF

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