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Acoustic resonances in microfluidic chips: full-image micro-PIV experiments and numerical simulations

Fluid Dynamics 2012-01-31 v1

Abstract

We show that full-image micro-PIV analysis in combination with images of transient particle motion is a powerful tool for experimental studies of acoustic radiation forces and acoustic streaming in microfluidic chambers under piezo-actuation in the MHz range. The measured steady-state motion of both large 5 um and small 1 um particles can be understood in terms of the acoustic eigenmodes or standing ultra-sound waves in the given experimental microsystems. This interpretation is supported by numerical solutions of the corresponding acoustic wave equation.

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@article{arxiv.0704.1314,
  title  = {Acoustic resonances in microfluidic chips: full-image micro-PIV experiments and numerical simulations},
  author = {S. Melker Sundin and Thomas Glasdam Jensen and Henrik Bruus and Jorg P. Kutter},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0704.1314},
  year   = {2012}
}

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RevTex, 10 pages, 9 eps figures; NOTE first authors changed his name to S. Melker Hagsater in the published version