The fluidic oscillator (14) includes a resonant fluid circuit having a fluid inertance and a dynamic fluid compliance. The inertance is a conduit (4) interconnecting two locations (16a, 16b) of a chamber on each side of a working fluid jet issuing into one end of the chamber (3), the inertance conduit transfers working fluid between the two locations. Through one or more output orifices (10), located at the opposite end of chamber (3), the fluid exits from an exit region (11) which is shaped to facilitate formation of a vortex (the dynamic compliance) from the entering fluid. The flow pattern in chamber (3), specially the vortex in exit region (11) provide flow aspiration on one side and surplus of flow on the opposite side of chamber (3), which effects accelerate and respectively decelerate the fluid in the inertance conduit (4) such as to cause reversal of the vortex after a time delay given by the inertance. The vortex in the exit region will cyclically alternate in velocity and direction of rotation to direct outflow through the output orifice such as to produce a cyclically repetitive side-to-side sweeping stream whose direction is determined, at any instant in time, as a function of the vectorial sum, at the output orifice, of the tangential vortex flow spin velocity vector and the static pressure vector and the dynamic pressure component, both directed radially from the vortex. By changing these parameters and by appropriately configuring the oscillator, sweep angle, oscillation frequency, distribution, outflow velocity, break up into droplets, etc. can be controlled over large ranges.