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A new technique for visualization of acoustic particle agglomeration Thomas L. Hoffmanna) and Gary H. Koopmann Center for Acoustics and Wbration, The Pennsylvania State Univers 157 Hammond Building, University Park Pennsylvania 16802 (Received 6 December 1993; accepted for publication 8 February 1994) A new visualization technique is presented for microscopic particle trajectories displaying interaction and agglomeration phenomena in a high intensity acoustic field. The experiments are carried out in a small-scale observation chamber using a CCD camera in conjunction with a high resolution video system. A homogeneous acoustic velocity field is generated by two square, flat-membrane loudspeakers which comprise two opposing walls in the observation chamber. Glass microspheres (diameters 8.1 and 22.1 ;umjand arbitrarily shaped quartz particles (diameter50 m) are used for the observation of interaction and agglomeration trajectories under the influence of an intense acoustic velocity field (1.2-0.53 m/s @400-900 Hz). The new technique allows the observation of the particles’ general motion as well as acoustically induced oscillations. The direction of propagation of a particle can be extracted by following its trajectory in a 2D laser lightsheet. Image processing of the digitized data allows the reconstruction of particle trajectories for time spans up to 0.5 s. From the images, the part