Repetitive Acoustic Streaming Patterns in Sinusoidal Shaped Microchannels

Geometry of the fluid container plays a key role in the shape of acoustic streaming patterns. Inadvertent vortices can be troublesome in some cases, but if treated properly, the problem turns into a very useful parameter in acoustic tweezing or micromixing applications. In this paper, the effects of...

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Main Authors: Elnaz JANNESAR, Hossein HAMZEHPOUR
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Language:English
Published: Institute of Fundamental Technological Research Polish Academy of Sciences 2020-02-01
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Online Access:https://acoustics.ippt.pan.pl/index.php/aa/article/view/2690
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description Geometry of the fluid container plays a key role in the shape of acoustic streaming patterns. Inadvertent vortices can be troublesome in some cases, but if treated properly, the problem turns into a very useful parameter in acoustic tweezing or micromixing applications. In this paper, the effects of sinusoidal boundaries of a microchannel on acoustic streaming patterns are studied. The results show that while top and bottom sinusoidal walls are vertically actuated at the resonance frequency of basic hypothetical rectangular microchannel, some repetitive acoustic streaming patterns are recognised in classifiable cases. Such patterns can never be produced in the rectangular geometry with flat boundaries. Relations between geometrical parameters and emerging acoustic streaming patterns lead us to propose formulas in order to predict more cases. Such results and formulations were not trivial at a glance.
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spelling doaj-art-998f5ccb1efe4ab287828d829aa147982025-08-20T03:33:46ZengInstitute of Fundamental Technological Research Polish Academy of SciencesArchives of Acoustics0137-50752300-262X2020-02-0145110.24425/aoa.2020.132480Repetitive Acoustic Streaming Patterns in Sinusoidal Shaped MicrochannelsElnaz JANNESAR0Hossein HAMZEHPOUR1K.N. Toosi University of TechnologyK.N. Toosi University of TechnologyGeometry of the fluid container plays a key role in the shape of acoustic streaming patterns. Inadvertent vortices can be troublesome in some cases, but if treated properly, the problem turns into a very useful parameter in acoustic tweezing or micromixing applications. In this paper, the effects of sinusoidal boundaries of a microchannel on acoustic streaming patterns are studied. The results show that while top and bottom sinusoidal walls are vertically actuated at the resonance frequency of basic hypothetical rectangular microchannel, some repetitive acoustic streaming patterns are recognised in classifiable cases. Such patterns can never be produced in the rectangular geometry with flat boundaries. Relations between geometrical parameters and emerging acoustic streaming patterns lead us to propose formulas in order to predict more cases. Such results and formulations were not trivial at a glance.https://acoustics.ippt.pan.pl/index.php/aa/article/view/2690acoustic streamingsinusoidal boundariesmicroscale vorticessub-microparticle trapping
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acoustic streaming
sinusoidal boundaries
microscale vortices
sub-microparticle trapping
title Repetitive Acoustic Streaming Patterns in Sinusoidal Shaped Microchannels
title_full Repetitive Acoustic Streaming Patterns in Sinusoidal Shaped Microchannels
title_fullStr Repetitive Acoustic Streaming Patterns in Sinusoidal Shaped Microchannels
title_full_unstemmed Repetitive Acoustic Streaming Patterns in Sinusoidal Shaped Microchannels
title_short Repetitive Acoustic Streaming Patterns in Sinusoidal Shaped Microchannels
title_sort repetitive acoustic streaming patterns in sinusoidal shaped microchannels
topic acoustic streaming
sinusoidal boundaries
microscale vortices
sub-microparticle trapping
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