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The effect of centreline particle concentration in a wave tube

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2006

P. Vainshtein
Affiliation:
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technin-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel
M. Fichman
Affiliation:
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technin-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel
K. Shuster
Affiliation:
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technin-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel
C. Gutfinger
Affiliation:
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technin-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel

Abstract

The interaction of sound waves with an aqueous suspension of solid particles was analysed experimentally and theoretically. A heretofore unreported effect of particle concentration in the vicinity of a wave-tube centreline was observed. The phenomenon is related to the combined effect of Rayleigh-type acoustic streaming, jet-like streaming (quartz wind) and drift forces occurring in the presence of a sonic wave in the suspension-filled tube.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 1996 Cambridge University Press

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