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LAB ON A CHIP
Volume 14, Issue 15, Pages 2824-2836Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c4lc00191e
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- National Institutes of Health [1DP2OD007209-01]
- American Asthma Foundation (AAF)
- Penn State Center for Nanoscale Science (MRSEC) [DMR-0820404]
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Oscillating sharp edges have been employed to achieve rapid and homogeneous mixing in microchannels using acoustic streaming. Here, we used a perturbation approach to study the flow around oscillating sharp edges in a microchannel. This work extends prior experimental studies to numerically characterize the effect of various parameters on the acoustically induced flow. Our numerical results match well with the experimental results. We investigated multiple device parameters such as the tip angle, oscillation amplitude, and channel dimensions. Our results indicate that, due to the inherent nonlinearity of acoustic streaming, the channel dimensions could significantly impact the flow patterns and device performance.
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