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Paper   IPM / Physic / 16153
School of Physics
  Title:   Repetitive Acoustic Streaming Patterns in Sinusoidal Shaped Microchannels
  Author(s): 
1.  E. Attar Jannesar
2.  H. Hamzehpour
  Status:   Published
  Journal: Archives of Acoustics
  No.:  1
  Vol.:  45
  Year:  2020
  Pages:   35-48
  Supported by:  IPM
  Abstract:
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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