On interaction of liquid drops located in radiation field of the acoustic wave

Abstract

Propagation of the plane acoustic wave along the center line of two liquid spherical drops placed into a space filled with another liquid is under investigation. An approach is elaborated to characterize the interaction between the liquid drops caused by the acoustic radiation forces that are the time-constant components of hydrodynamic forces acting upon the drops located in the outer liquid. Investigation of the acoustic radiation forces influencing the drops in the acoustic field is performed in the frame of two-step procedure. The first step comprises solution of the linear problem of incident wave diffraction on the drops while the second one is calculation of the hydrodynamic forces acting upon each spherical drop followed by time averaging of forces determined. The analytical formula for the acoustic radiation force calculation is derived for the case under consideration.