Particle drift near an oscillating bubble

DOI10.1098/RSPA.1997.0083MaRDI QIDQ4349593zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors M. S. Longuet-Higgins

Publication date 24 August 1997

Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical and Physical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1997.0083

zbMATH Keywords

asymmetrical collapsedrift trajectorygas bubblesonoluminiscencestanding sound wavesymmetrical collapse

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Jets and cavities, cavitation, free-streamline theory, water-entry problems, airfoil and hydrofoil theory, sloshing (76B10) Physical optics (78A10) Mathematically heuristic optics and electromagnetic theory (must also be assigned at least one other classification number in Section 78-XX) (78A97)

Review text

The author considers the hydrodynamical aspects of a less known physical phenomenon, the sonoluminiscence. In its simplest form, a gas bubble of a radius of order 5 \(\mu\)m is excited to oscillate by a standing sound wave with the frequency about 30 kHz and with the pressure amplitude slighly greater than 1 atm. This causes the bubble to expand periodically its initial radius about a ten times and then to collapse violently to a much smaller radius, once per acoustical cycle. Close to the phase of minimum radius, a short flash of light is emitted (less than 50 ps.) with a high degree of regularity. The author analyses in the paper two situations. In the first one, the bubble remains spherical and executes a radial oscillation and a lateral one. In the second situation the bubble collapses asymmetrically so that the resulting jet is injected periodically into the fluid. In both situations the mathematical problems are posed, the trajectories of a marked particle are determined, and a typical drift trajectory is calculated. A set of trajectories is given for the symmetrical case; the asymmetrical case is also analysed and commented.

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