Collapse and pinch-Off of a non-axisymmetric impact-created air cavity in water

DOI10.1017/JFM.2012.130zbMATH Open1248.76139arXiv1109.5823OpenAlexW3104191411MaRDI QIDQ2907145FDOQ2907145

Authors: Oskar R. Enriquez, Ivo R. Peters, Stephan Gekle, Laura E. Schmidt, Devaraj van der Meer, Detlef Lohse 

Publication date: 7 September 2012

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The axisymmetric collapse of a cylindrical air cavity in water follows a universal power law with logarithmic corrections. Nonetheless, it has been suggested that the introduction of a small azimuthal disturbance induces a long term memory effect, reflecting in oscillations which are no longer universal but remember the initial condition. In this work, we create non-axisymmetric air cavities by driving a metal disc through an initially-quiescent water surface and observe their subsequent gravity-induced collapse. The cavities are characterized by azimuthal harmonic disturbances with a single mode number $m$ and amplitude $a_m$. For small initial distortion amplitude (1 or 2% of the mean disc radius), the cavity walls oscillate linearly during collapse, with nearly constant amplitude and increasing frequency. As the amplitude is increased, higher harmonics are triggered in the oscillations and we observe more complex pinch-off modes. For small amplitude disturbances we compare our experimental results with the model for the amplitude of the oscillations by Schmidt et al. (2009) and the model for the collapse of an axisymmetric impact-created cavity previously proposed by Bergmann et al. (2009b). By combining these two models we can reconstruct the three-dimensional shape of the cavity at any time before pinch-off.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1109.5823

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zbMATH Keywords

pattern formationbubble dynamicswaves/free-surface flows

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Liquid-gas two-phase flows, bubbly flows (76T10) Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B47) Experimental work for problems pertaining to fluid mechanics (76-05) Jets and cavities, cavitation, free-streamline theory, water-entry problems, airfoil and hydrofoil theory, sloshing (76B10)

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