# gst: apropos of oscillations, viscous streaming around an immersed microfeature (e.g. a bubble)

<< Viscous streaming refers to the rectified, steady flows that emerge when a liquid oscillates around an immersed microfeature, typically a solid body or a bubble. The ability of such features to locally concentrate stresses produces strong inertial effects to which both fluid and immersed particles respond within short length (O(100) microns) and time (milliseconds) scales, rendering viscous streaming arguably the most efficient mechanism to exploit inertia at the microscale. >>️

(AA) << demonstrate that a multi-curvature approach in viscous streaming dramatically extends the range of accessible flow topologies. (They) show that numerically predicted, but never experimentally observed, streaming flows can be physically reproduced, computationally engineered, and in turn used to enhance particle manipulation, filtering and separation in compact, robust, tunable and inexpensive devices. >>️

Yashraj Bhosale, Giridar Vishwanathan, et al. Multi-curvature viscous streaming: flow topology and particle manipulation. arXiv: 2111.07184v1 [physics.flu-dyn]. Nov 13, 2021.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.07184

keywords: gst, viscosity, viscous streaming, bubble, oscillations, liquid oscillations, flanking vortex, particle manipulation