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Visualization of acoustic particle interaction and agglomeration: Theory and experiments Thomas L. Hoffmanna) and Gary H. Koopmann Center for Acoustics and Vibration, The Pennsylvania State University, 157 Hammond Building, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802 Received 14 October 1994; accepted for publication 24 August 1995 This paper presents new insights in interaction mechanisms between small particles under the influence of a strong acoustic field. These mechanisms are associated with acoustic agglomeration, an effect that causes relative motion and collisions between fine particles entrained in gaseous media. The agglomeration process has potential use in air pollution control to enhance the performance of conventional particle filtering devices in the fine particle size range. In Sec. I of this paper, a number of existing acoustic agglomeration models are reviewed and implemented into a numerical scheme. A quantitative analysis of the proposed theories is conducted with parameters representing those of the experimental Sec. II. Simulations based on the scattering, orthokinetic, and hydrodynamic agglomeration principles generate numerical trajectories which reflect their importance in the particle interaction process. Most importantly it is shown that a hydrodynamic effect based on asymmetric flow fields around the particles acoustic wake effect generates significant particle attraction in the direction of the acoustic velocity vector. To evaluate these theoretical findings, Sec. II of this paper presents new experimental observations of microscopic particle trajectories in an intense acoustic field. The experiments are