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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 130, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.044001
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This study investigates acoustic streaming at high acoustic energy densities in a microfluidic channel. The results obtained from theoretical, numerical, and experimental methods demonstrate that frictional heating can significantly alter the streaming pattern at energy densities above 400 J/m3. The study shows that with increasing energy density at a fixed frequency, the traditional boundary-driven four streaming rolls transition into two larger streaming rolls.
Acoustic streaming at high acoustic energy densities Eac is studied in a microfluidic channel. It is demonstrated theoretically, numerically, and experimentally with good agreement that frictional heating can alter the streaming pattern qualitatively at high Eac above 400 J/m3. The study shows how as a function of increasing Eac at fixed frequency, the traditional boundary-driven four streaming rolls created at a half -wave standing-wave resonance transition into two large streaming rolls. This nonlinear transition occurs because friction heats up the fluid resulting in a temperature gradient, which spawns an acoustic body force in the bulk that drives thermoacoustic streaming.
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