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Microparticle Manipulation by Standing Surface Acoustic Waves with Dual-frequency Excitations
Published on: August 21, 2018
Equivalence between angular spectrum-based and multipole expansion-based formulas of the acoustic radiation force and
Zhixiong Gong1, Michael Baudoin1
1Université de Lille, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centrale Lille, Yncréa Institut Supérieur de l'Électronique et du Numérique, Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France, Unité Mixte de Recherche 8520-Institut d'Electronique de Microélectronique et de Nanotechnologie, F- 59000 Lille, France.
Abstract:
Two main methods have been proposed to derive the acoustical radiation force and torque applied by an arbitrary acoustic field on a particle: The first one relies on the plane wave angular spectrum decomposition of the incident field (see Sapozhnikov and Bailey [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 133, 661-676 (2013)] for the force and Gong and Baudoin [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 148, 3131-3140 (2020)] for the torque), while the second one relies on the decomposition of the incident field into a sum of spherical waves, the so-called multipole expansion (see Silva [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 130, 3541-3544 (2011)] and Baresch, Thomas, and Marchiano [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 133, 25-36 (2013)] for the force, and Silva, Lobo, and Mitri [Europhys. Lett. 97, 54003 (2012)] and Gong, Marston, and Li [Phys. Rev. Appl. 11, 064022 (2019)] for the torque). In this paper, we formally establish the equivalence between the expressions obtained with these two methods for both the force and torque.
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