Radiation dominated acoustophoresis driven by surface acoustic waves》.pdf

Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 455 (2015) 203–211 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Journal of Colloid and Interface Science /locate/jcis Radiation dominated acoustophoresis driven by surface acoustic waves Jinhong Guo a,⇑, Yuejun Kang b, Ye Ai a,⇑ a Pillar of Engineering Product Development, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore 487372, Singapore b School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637459, Singapore g r a p h i c a l a b s t r a c t a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Acoustophoresis-based particle manipulation in microfluidics has gained increasing attention in recent Received 6 April 2015 years. Despite the fact that experimental studies have been extensively performed to demonstrate this Accepted 6 May 2015 technique for various microfluidic applications, numerical simulation of acoustophoresis driven by sur- Available online 3 June 2015 face acoustic waves (SAWs) has still been largely unexplored. In this work, a numerical model taking into account the acoustic–piezoelectric interaction was developed to simulate the generation of a standing Keywords: surface acoustic wave (SSAW) field and predict the acoustic pressure field in the liquid. Acoustic radiation Acoustophoresis dominated particle tracing was performed to simulate acous