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Nucleating bubble clouds with a pair of laser-induced shocks and bubbles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 September 2013

Pedro A. Quinto-Su  and
Keita Ando
Pedro A. Quinto-Su*
Affiliation:
Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apartado Postal 70-543, 04510 México D.F., Mexico
Keita Ando
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Keio University, Yokohama 223-8522, Japan
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†Email address for correspondence: [email protected]
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Abstract

Laser-induced optical breakdown at two spatial locations in ultrapure water saturated with ambient gas is used to nucleate microscopic bubble clouds with lifetimes of tens of nanoseconds. The liquid is ruptured via the interaction of a pair of laser-induced shocks and bubbles. We find that the acoustically nucleated micro-bubbles appear in a localized region defined by the plane that bisects the pair of foci, where rarefaction waves (reflected from the laser-induced bubbles) merge. We measure the probability for acoustic nucleation as a function of the separation between the foci, and the minimum pressures for each separation are calculated with Euler flow simulations. The simulations show that the liquid is exposed to negative pressures for 3–17 ns. A statistical threshold pressure for cavitation inception (0.5 probability) of $- 20. 1\pm 3. 4~\mathrm{MPa} $ is extracted from the measured probabilities and the calculated minimum pressures.

JFM classification

Drops and Bubbles: Bubble dynamics Drops and Bubbles: Cavitation Compressible Flows: Shock waves
Type
Rapids
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 733 , 25 October 2013 , R3
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©2013 Cambridge University Press 

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