A comprehensive and detailed modelling to evaluate the efficiency of energy conversion of piezo-electric actuators driving synthetic jets is developed. The contribution is original because the analysis is based on the energy equations of the two coupled oscillators, the membrane and the acoustic one, which are directly derived from the corresponding motion equations. The modelling is validated against numerical as well as experimental investigations carried out on a home-made actuator having an aluminum shim on which the piezodisk is bonded. A major result is that for the actuator under investigationthe global efficiency (representing the conversion of input Joule power to kinetic power) decreases with increasing the applied voltage. Another finding is that the conversion process of mechanical power transferred from the driving membrane to Helmholtz oscillator kinetic power scales dramatically with the coupling degree of the oscillators. The coupling degree infuences the efficiency of two cavities actuators sharing the same piezo-diaphragm as well. Considerations are reported to relate the theoretical orifice efficiency to the practical jetefficiency issuing in the external field.

Modelling of efficiency of synthetic jet actuators / Girfoglio, Michele; Greco, CARLO SALVATORE; Chiatto, Matteo; DE LUCA, Luigi. - In: SENSORS AND ACTUATORS. A, PHYSICAL. - ISSN 0924-4247. - 233:(2015), pp. 512-521. [10.1016/j.sna.2015.07.030]

Modelling of efficiency of synthetic jet actuators

GIRFOGLIO, MICHELE;GRECO, CARLO SALVATORE;CHIATTO, MATTEO;DE LUCA, LUIGI
2015

Abstract

A comprehensive and detailed modelling to evaluate the efficiency of energy conversion of piezo-electric actuators driving synthetic jets is developed. The contribution is original because the analysis is based on the energy equations of the two coupled oscillators, the membrane and the acoustic one, which are directly derived from the corresponding motion equations. The modelling is validated against numerical as well as experimental investigations carried out on a home-made actuator having an aluminum shim on which the piezodisk is bonded. A major result is that for the actuator under investigationthe global efficiency (representing the conversion of input Joule power to kinetic power) decreases with increasing the applied voltage. Another finding is that the conversion process of mechanical power transferred from the driving membrane to Helmholtz oscillator kinetic power scales dramatically with the coupling degree of the oscillators. The coupling degree infuences the efficiency of two cavities actuators sharing the same piezo-diaphragm as well. Considerations are reported to relate the theoretical orifice efficiency to the practical jetefficiency issuing in the external field.
2015
Modelling of efficiency of synthetic jet actuators / Girfoglio, Michele; Greco, CARLO SALVATORE; Chiatto, Matteo; DE LUCA, Luigi. - In: SENSORS AND ACTUATORS. A, PHYSICAL. - ISSN 0924-4247. - 233:(2015), pp. 512-521. [10.1016/j.sna.2015.07.030]
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