Experimental study of acoustic streaming phenomenon generated by piezoelectric transducers

Work supported by FEDER funds through the "Programa Operacional Factores de Competitividade – COMPETE" and by national funds by FCT- Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia project reference PTDC/BIO/70017/2006. S. O. Catarino thanks the FCT for the SFRH/BD/61767/2009 grant.

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