Acoustic streaming induced by the non-periodic sound in a viscous medium

Abstract

Instantaneous radiation force of acoustic streaming in a thermoviscous fluid is the subject of investigation. Dynamic equation governing the velocity of acoustic streaming is a result of splitting of the conservative differential equations in partial derivatives basing on the features of all possible types of a fluid motion. The procedure of deriving does not need averaging over sound period. It is shown that the radiation force consists of three parts, one corresponding to the classic result (while averaged over sound period), the second being a small negative term caused by diffraction, and the third one. This last term equals exactly zero for periodic sound (after averaging) and differs from zero for other types of sound. Sound itself must satisfy the well-known Khokhlov–Zabolotskaya–Kuznetsov equation describing the weakly diffracting nonlinear acoustic beam propagating over viscous thermconducting fluid. The parts of radiation acoustic force, relating to the sound non-periodicity and diffraction, are discussed and illustrated.