This study concerns combustion instabilities. It analyzes the dynamics of flames submited to an azimuthal acoustic perturbation and its driving mechanisms. For that purpose, an inverted conical laminar premixed flame is placed at different positions in a standing transverse acoustic field from middle to high frequencies f0.The fluidic system behavior has been classified in the basins of influence of three antinodes : acoustic pressure (VP), acoustic intensity (VI) and acoustic velocity (VV). The acoustic pressure of the field imposes a mode conversion from the transverse wave to a longitudinal wave at the burner exit, the amplitude of which, slowly decreasing from VP to VI, strongly diminishes from VI to VV where pressure effects are residu...