We present an experimental study on the motion of a spherical droplet in a plane traveling sound wave.The experiments were performed in the test section of a tunnel with two loudspeakers at the two ends of the tunnel....We present an experimental study on the motion of a spherical droplet in a plane traveling sound wave.The experiments were performed in the test section of a tunnel with two loudspeakers at the two ends of the tunnel.By adjusting the amplitude ratio and the phase difference between the two speakers,a plane traveling sound wave field can be achieved in the test section of the tunnel,which we checked by measuring the amplitudes and phases of the sound pressure along the tunnel and by simultaneously measuring the velocity field of the air flow at three different locations in the tunnel.When a liquid droplet was introduced in the test section,the motion of the droplet and the velocity of the air flow around the droplet were recorded by high speed cameras,from which we analyze and obtain the ratio of the velocity amplitudes and the phase difference between the particle motion and the fluid motion.The experimental data confirm the theoretical result from the wave equations in the long-wavelength regime,i.e.,when the particle size is much smaller than the wavelength.Moreover,we showed that in this regime,the theory on particle motion in an unsteady uniform fluid,when the history term is included,also yields the same results that are in agreement with the experimental data and the wave equation.Our result extends the parameter range over which the theory on particle motion in unsteady fluid is checked against experiments,especially to the range of particle-fluid density ratio that is of important practical applications.展开更多
基金This work was supported partially by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.11988102)and by Tsinghua University.
文摘We present an experimental study on the motion of a spherical droplet in a plane traveling sound wave.The experiments were performed in the test section of a tunnel with two loudspeakers at the two ends of the tunnel.By adjusting the amplitude ratio and the phase difference between the two speakers,a plane traveling sound wave field can be achieved in the test section of the tunnel,which we checked by measuring the amplitudes and phases of the sound pressure along the tunnel and by simultaneously measuring the velocity field of the air flow at three different locations in the tunnel.When a liquid droplet was introduced in the test section,the motion of the droplet and the velocity of the air flow around the droplet were recorded by high speed cameras,from which we analyze and obtain the ratio of the velocity amplitudes and the phase difference between the particle motion and the fluid motion.The experimental data confirm the theoretical result from the wave equations in the long-wavelength regime,i.e.,when the particle size is much smaller than the wavelength.Moreover,we showed that in this regime,the theory on particle motion in an unsteady uniform fluid,when the history term is included,also yields the same results that are in agreement with the experimental data and the wave equation.Our result extends the parameter range over which the theory on particle motion in unsteady fluid is checked against experiments,especially to the range of particle-fluid density ratio that is of important practical applications.
