Acoustic Streaming in a Microchannel with Inhomogeneous Fluids
Application ID: 121501
In acoustofluidics, acoustics is used to manipulate particles and fluids in microfluidic devices. This model demonstrates the phenomena of the inhomogeneous acoustic body force and how it can move a fluid with an inhomogeneous density due to a solute.
The model is of a 2D rectangular cross section of a long rectangular microchannel and inspired by Ref 1. Where it is demonstrated that an acoustic field can move a high density fluid from the bottom to the center of a microfluidic channel. In the model Transport of Diluted Species is used together with user defined material parameters (Ref 1) that depend on the concentration of the diluted species.
Ref 1: J. T. Karlsen et. al "Acoustic Force Density Acting on Inhomogeneous Fluids in Acoustic Fields", PRL 117, 114504 (2016).
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