Direct observation of the pressure developed in a liquid during cavitation‐bubble collapse

Autor: D. C. Emmony, B. Ward
Rok vydání: 1991
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Zdroj: Applied Physics Letters. 59:2228-2230
ISSN: 1077-3118
0003-6951
DOI: 10.1063/1.106078
Popis: A Mach–Zehnder interferometer with a pulsed dye‐laser light source is used to observe the collapse of laser‐produced cavitation bubbles in water near a rigid transparent polymeric boundary. Vapor bubbles with a maximum radius of about a millimeter are formed using a Q‐switched Nd:YAG laser operating at 1.06 μm with a pulse energy of 4.6 mJ and a pulse duration of 8 ns. The pressure in the liquid around the bubbles is determined directly from the resulting interferograms using a fringe tracing method. Prior to bubble rebound, a region of compressed water develops adjacent to the cavity and a weak acoustic wave is directed towards the rigid boundary.
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