[LAD] Audio Levitation

[Patrick Shirkey]

On Sun, January 5, 2014 2:57 am, Dominique Michel wrote:
> Le Sat, 4 Jan 2014 13:39:05 +0000,
> Fons Adriaensen <fons at linuxaudio.org> a écrit :
>
>> On Sat, Jan 04, 2014 at 09:24:54PM +1100, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
>>
>> > Does cavitation have a role to play?
>>
>> No idea. If it does that could be rather destructive on some
>> materials.
>
> Acoustic, inclusive acoustic levitation, already have uses. The army
> use it (at least from the Vietnam war), the chemical and drug industry
> use it or have plans to use it, etc.
>

Here's the paper:

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1312.4006v1.pdf

They also have an interest in using the technique in micro gravity.


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Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd