This work presents an experimental and numerical study of a nozzle/diffuser micropump working in the steady regime. Experiments were conducted with a model ten times bigger than the prototype. Preliminary results on the velocity distribution in the chamber were obtained with the PIV technique. The velocity distribution inside the chamber was calculated numerically and the predictions were compared with the experimental measurements showing a satisfactory agreement in the center and extremes, but not in the middle of them.

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