Determination of Fluid Density and Viscosity by Analyzing Flexural Wave Propagations on the Vibrating Micro-Cantilever
- Authors
- Kim, Deokman; Hong, Seongkyeol; Jang, Jaesung; Park, Junhong
- Issue Date
- Nov-2017
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Keywords
- density; viscosity; wave propagation analysis; cantilever sensor; fluid-structure interaction
- Citation
- SENSORS, v.17, no.11
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- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- SENSORS
- Volume
- 17
- Number
- 11
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/hanyang/handle/2021.sw.hanyang/18675
- DOI
- 10.3390/s17112466
- ISSN
- 1424-8220
- Abstract
- The determination of fluid density and viscosity using most cantilever-based sensors is based on changes in resonant frequency and peak width. Here, we present a wave propagation analysis using piezoelectrically excited micro-cantilevers under distributed fluid loading. The standing wave shapes of microscale-thickness cantilevers partially immersed in liquids (water, 25% glycerol, and acetone), and nanoscale-thickness microfabricated cantilevers fully immersed in gases (air at three different pressures, carbon dioxide, and nitrogen) were investigated to identify the effects of fluid-structure interactions to thus determine the fluid properties. This measurement method was validated by comparing with the known fluid properties, which agreed well with the measurements. The relative differences for the liquids were less than 4.8% for the densities and 3.1% for the viscosities, and those for the gases were less than 6.7% for the densities and 7.3% for the viscosities, showing better agreements in liquids than in gases.
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