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Mixing presents a notoriously difficult problem in small amounts of fluids. Herein, surface acoustic waves provide a convenient technique to generate time-dependent flow patterns. These flow patterns can be optimized in such a way that advected particles are mixed most efficiently in the fluid within a short time compared to the time pure diffusion would take. Investigations are presented for the mixing efficiency of a flat cylinder that is driven by two surface acoustic waves. The experimental results favorably agree with model calculations of the flow patterns and the advective transport.
Frommelt et al. (Thu,) studied this question.