Acoustic radiation force and torque on a viscous fluid cylindrical particle nearby a planar rigid wall

TL;DR

This paper develops an analytical formalism to calculate the acoustic radiation force and torque on a viscous cylindrical particle near a rigid wall, accounting for various incident angles, particle sizes, and distances.

Contribution

It introduces a novel multipole expansion method for exact solutions applicable across all frequencies, including near-field effects and particle-wall interactions.

Findings

Force can be attractive or repulsive depending on parameters.

Rotation direction of the particle can reverse based on size and position.

Singularities occur where the particle becomes insensitive to acoustic forces.

Abstract

This work presents an analytical formalism for the modal series expansions of the acoustic radiation force and radiation torque experienced by a fluid viscous cylindrical object of arbitrary geometrical cross-section placed near a planar rigid wall. A plane progressive wave field with an arbitrary angle of incidence propagating in an inviscid fluid is assumed. Initially, an effective field incident on the particle (including the principal incident field, the reflected wave-field from the boundary and the scattered field from the image object) is defined. Subsequently, the incident effective field is utilized in conjunction with the scattered one from the object, to obtain closed-form expansions for the longitudinal and transversal force components, in addition to the axial torque component, based on the scattering in the far-field. The obtained solutions involve the angle of incidence, the modal coefficients of the scatterer and its image, and the particle-wall distance. Computations are considered, and calculations exemplify the analysis with emphasis on changing the particle size, the particle-wall distance and the angle of incidence. It is found that the object experiences either an attractive or repulsive force directed toward or away from the boundary. Moreover, it reverses its rotation around its center of mass depending on its size, particle-wall distance and angle of incidence. Furthermore, radiation force and torque singularities occur (i.e., zero force and torque) such that the cylinder becomes irresponsive to the linear and angular momenta transfer yielded by the effective field. The exact formalism presented here using the multipole expansion method, which is valid for any frequency range, could be used to validate other approaches using purely numerical methods, or frequency-limiting approximate models such as the Rayleigh and the Kirchhoff regimes.