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Microparticle Manipulation by Standing Surface Acoustic Waves with Dual-frequency Excitations
Published on: August 21, 2018
Increased efficiency of surface wave stimulation on the inaccessible side of a thick isotropic plate with
1Georgia Institute of Technology, George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Atlanta, GA 30332-0405, USA. nico.declercq@me.gatech.edu
Abstract:
Because of the growing number of applications of phononic crystals and other periodic structures, there is a renewed and growing interest in understanding the interaction of ultrasound with periodically corrugated surfaces. This paper presents a theoretical investigation of the transformation of ultrasound incident from the solid side onto a solid-liquid periodically corrugated interface. It is shown that it is possible to tailor the shape of a corrugated surface with given periodicity such that there is a significant amount of energy transformed into Scholte-Stoneley waves than if pure saw-tooth or sine-shaped surfaces were used. This permits the fabrication of periodic structures that can be patched on or engraved in body parts of a construction and enables efficient generation of Scholte-Stoneley waves. The study is performed for incident homogeneous plane waves as well as for bounded beams. Incident longitudinal waves are studied as well as incident shear waves.
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