Experimental and numerical investigation of acoustic streaming excited by using a surface acoustic wave device on a 128° YX-LiNbO3 substrate

Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Alghane, M ^a   Chen, B X ^a   Fu, Y Q ^a   Li, Y ^b   Luo, J K ^c   Walton, A J ^c  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY FORCES; DROPLET INTERACTION; FLOW MOTION; FLUID VOLUMES; INCOMPRESSIBLE NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; INTERACTION AREA; MICRO DROPLETS; MICROFLUIDIC INTERACTIONS; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; NUMERICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL PREDICTIONS; POLYSTYRENE PARTICLE; RF POWER; STREAMING VELOCITY; SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE DEVICE; SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; WATER DROPLETS;

ACOUSTIC STREAMING; ACOUSTIC SURFACE WAVE DEVICES; ACOUSTIC WAVES; ACOUSTICS; ACOUSTOELECTRIC EFFECTS; DROP FORMATION; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; POLYSTYRENES; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 78651480837     PISSN: 09601317     EISSN: 13616439     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0960-1317/21/1/015005     Document Type: Article

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