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We have numerically studied the geometrical effects on the performance of an H-type cylindrical resonant photoacoustic cell, composed of one resonator and two symmetrical buffer cylinders, by performing simulations on the generation of acoustic waves in the cell. Here, the acoustic response (pressure), resonance frequency and quality factor are calculated for the cell performance, while the lengths and diameters of both resonator and buffer cylinders are considered for the geometrical parameters or dimensions. Our calculation solves linearized forms of the continuity equation, Navier-Stokes equation, energy equation, and equation of state using a finite element method under an assumption that the heat addition due to the laser passage and thus the variations in the velocity, pressure and temperature fields inside the cell are small enough. First, we performed a statistical analysis using a design of experiment method to evaluate the relative impacts of the cell dimensions on the acoustic response. Subsequently, we performed a parametric study to quantify the cell performance with the dimensional variations. Our results, along with the response surface methodology, provide guidance for a systematic design optimization of the cell for the best acoustic response. The approach in this study may be applied to the design of various types of resonant photoacoustic spectroscopy devices.
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Madhusoodanan Mannoor received his B.Tech. and M.Tech. degrees from Kerala University and National Institute of Technology, Calicut, India in 2004 and 2007, respectively. Then he worked for four years as a field engineer in Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited and subsequently as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, at Government Engineering College, Kannur, India. Presently, he is pursuing doctoral studies in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Dong-A university, Busan, Republic of Korea. His research interests are in the field of photoacoustics, computational fluid dynamics and molecular dynamics.
Jeeseong Hwang received his Ph.D. in condensed matter physics from Michigan State University. Presently he is a research biophysicist in the physical measurement laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Before joining NIST, he was a research scientist in an immunology laboratory at the Biology Department of the Johns Hopkins University. His research in the molecular and biophotonics project focuses on optics and nanobiophotonics for optical medical imaging and quantitative biophysics.
Sangmo Kang received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea in 1981 and 1987, respectively, and then worked for five years in Daewoo Heavy Industries, Incheon, Republic of Korea as a field engineer. He obtained his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA in 1996. Dr. Kang is currently a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Dong-A University, Busan, Republic of Korea. His research interests are in the area of micro and nanofluidics, turbulent flow and photoacoustics combined with the computational fluid dynamics.
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Mannoor, M., Hwang, J. & Kang, S. Numerical study of geometrical effects on the performance of an H-type cylindrical resonant photoacoustic cell. J Mech Sci Technol 32, 5671–5683 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12206-018-1114-8
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