Surface acoustic waves are capable of generating a streaming flow inside a droplet, enabling contactless mixing — a useful application in the area of microfluidics. Due to the multiphysics nature of the droplet streaming, a numerical study often makes several assumptions to capture only a part of the phenomenon. In this blog post, we will get the whole picture by modeling the streaming from the applied electric potential all the way to the generation of streaming flow using the COMSOL Multiphysics® software. Read more
