Computational Modelling Group

Investigation of acoustic radiation forces on micro-particles and cells in ultrasonic particle manipulation

Research Team
Puja Mishra
Investigators
Martyn Hill

A Finite Element model is developed to investigate the force generated on a particle of arbitrary geometry and composition in a sound field. The model overcame the drawbacks of existing analytical solutions of size restriction and provided the flexibility of particle representation. This suggested useful results on shape dependency, effect of elasticity of particle and dominancy of nucleus in a cell in estimating the force on a single particle.

Categories

Physical Systems and Engineering simulation: Acoustics, Wave propagation

Simulation software: COMSOL

Programming languages and libraries: Matlab