Secondary Acoustic Waves in a Polydisperse Bubbly Medium

Wave interaction of bubbles in a cavitation cluster is studied theoretically and experimentally. It is found that two groups of bubbles with different phases of oscillations and collapse time are formed at the early stage of bubblecluster formation. It is shown that small bubbles accumulating energy in the initial pulsed acoustic wave collapse in the field of internal positive pressure of the cluster. A secondary compression wave generated by inertial expansion of large bubbles is determined by means of numerical simulation and registered experimentally. The amplitude of this wave is comparable to the amplitude of the initial pulse. A decrease in the oscillation period and strengthening of the microbubble collapse are observed in the cluster under pulsed compression.     

Properties and Averaged Equations for Flows of Bubbly Liquids

Averaged properties of bubbly liquids in the limit of large Reynolds and small Weber numbers are determined as functions of the volume fraction, mean relative velocity, and velocity variance of the bubbles using numerical simulations and a pair interaction theory. The results of simulations are combined with those obtained recently for sheared bubbly liquids [19] and the mixture momentum and continuity equations to propose a complete set of averaged equations and closure relations for the flows of bubbly liquids at large Reynolds and small Weber numbers.     

Pressure Waves in a Gas–Liquid Medium with a Stratified Liquid–Bubbly Mixture Structure

Evolution and decay of pressure waves of moderate amplitude in a vertical shock tube filled by a gas–liquid medium with a nonuniform (stepwise) distribution of bubbles over the tube cross section are studied experimentally. The gas–liquid layer has the form of a ring located near the tube wall or the form of a gas–liquid column located in the center of the tube. It is shown that the nonuniformity of bubble distribution over the tube cross section increases the attenuation rate of pressure waves.     

Acoustic Waves in Channels with Porous and Permeable Walls

The propagation of acoustic disturbances in a porous medium crossed by numerous cracks (double porosity medium) is a complex problem that we here simplify by investigating the acoustics of a permeable channel. We consider a fluidfilled channel in two possible geometries, a slit or a cylindric pipe. The channel is surrounded by a porous medium (saturated with the same fluid) and is itself surrounded by an external medium. To simulate the average properties of the cracked rock, the external medium is either nonpermeable (few connections between cracks) or highly permeable (numerous connections). We present analytical and numerical results concerning acoustic disturbances of small amplitude generated in the channel, such as harmonic waves, step disturbanses and pulses.     

在旋转的半无限LiNbO3上传播的声表面波

声表面波(SAW)陀螺具有无源、无线、单层平面结构等优点。以目前国外研究小组所用的铌酸锂为对象，对含陀螺效应的声表面波的波动方程进行求解。用编制的程序进行了数值计算并绘制了基体绕各不同坐标轴旋转时，陀螺效应对铌酸锂表面传播的声表面波速度及对机电耦合系数影响的相关曲线，并对结果进行了分析。     

Acoustic Waves in a Liquid with Solid Particles and Gas Bubbles

The mathematical model which determines acoustic wave propagation in a mixture of liquid with gas bubbles and solid particles is proposed. A system of differential equations is written and the dispersion relation is derived. Low- and high-frequency asymptotics of the phase velocity in the mixture considered are found and illustrated. The effect of solid particles and gas bubbles on acoustic wave dispersion and dissipation is indicated. For the mixture of fluid with solid particles considered the speed of sound is compared with available experimental data.     

Bubbly jets in stagnant water

Air–water bubbly jets are studied experimentally in a relatively large water tank with a gas volume fraction, C_o, of up to 80% and nozzle Reynolds number, Re, ranging from 3500 to 17,700. Measurements of bubble properties and mean axial water velocity are obtained and two groups of experiments are identified, one with relatively uniform bubble sizes and another with large and irregular bubbles. For the first group, dimensionless relationships are obtained to describe bubble properties and mean liquid flow structure as functions of C_o and Re. Measurements of bubble slip velocity and estimates of the drag coefficient are also provided and compared to those for isolated bubbles from the literature. The study confirms the importance of bubble interactions to the dynamics of bubbly flows. Bubble breakup processes are also investigated for bubbly jets. It was found that a nozzle Reynolds number larger than 8000 is needed to cause breakup of larger bubbles into smaller bubbles and to produce a more uniform bubble size distribution. Moreover, the Weber number based on the mean water velocity appears to be a better criteria than the Weber number based on the bubble slip velocity to describe the onset of bubble breakup away from the nozzle, which occurs at a Weber number larger than 25.     

Propagation of Transient Acoustic Waves in Layered Porous Media: Fractional Equations for the Scattering Operators

Acoustic waves scattering from a rigid air-saturated porous medium is studied in the time domain. The medium is one dimensional and its physical parameters are depth dependent, i.e., the medium is layered. The loss and dispersion properties of the medium are due to the fluid-structure interaction induced by wave propagation. They are modeled by generalized susceptibility functions which express the memory effects in the propagation process. The wave equation is then a fractional telegraphist’s equation. The two relevant quantities are the scattering operators—transmission and reflection operators—which give the scattered fields from the incident wave. They are obtained from Volterra equations which are fractional equations for the scattering operators.     

Propagation of Transient Acoustic Waves in Layered Porous Media: Fractional Equations for the Scattering Operators

Acoustic waves scattering from a rigid air-saturated porous medium is studied in the time domain. The medium is one dimensional and its physical parameters are depth dependent, i.e., the medium is layered. The loss and dispersion properties of the medium are due to the fluid-structure interaction induced by wave propagation. They are modeled by generalized susceptibility functions which express the memory effects in the propagation process. The wave equation is then a fractional telegraphists equation. The two relevant quantities are the scattering operators—transmission and reflection operators—which give the scattered fields from the incident wave. They are obtained from Volterra equations which are fractional equations for the scattering operators.     

非均质变截面杆中弹性波的反射和透射

基于一维弹性波理论，本文对应力波在非均质变截面杆中传播问题进行了一维简单波分析，并把分析结果与二维轴对称有限元分析结果进行了比较，表明一维简单波分析是非常有效和实用的。利用一维简单波分析方法，本文还揭示了应力波在非均质变截面杆中的传播规律，特别对含有内部交界面的非均质变截面杆（带有连接段）进行了一维等效简化分析，研究了连接段对应力波传播的影响。     

Generation of Nonstationary Waves by a Spherical Piezoelectric Transducer Filled with a Viscous and Surrounded by a Perfect Compressible Liquids

A nonstationary problem is solved for a thin-walled piezoelectric transducer generating waves. The transducer is filled with a viscous and surrounded by a perfect compressible liquids. A method is developed to reduce this problem to a system of Volterra's integral equations. Calculations are performed to evaluate the effect of the viscous properties of the filler on the processes in the hydroelectroelastic system.     

Bubbly flow measurements in hydraulic jumps with small inflow Froude numbers

The transition from supercritical to subcritical open channel flow is characterised by a strong dissipative mechanism called a hydraulic jump. A hydraulic jump is turbulent and associated with the development of large-scale turbulence and air entrainment. In the present study, some new physical experiments were conducted to characterise the bubbly flow region of hydraulic jumps with relatively small Froude numbers (2.4 < Fr₁ < 5.1) and relatively large Reynolds numbers (6.6 × 10⁴ < Re < 1.3 × 10⁵). The shape of the time-averaged free-surface profiles was well defined and the longitudinal profiles were in agreement with visual observations. The turbulent free-surface fluctuation profiles exhibited a peak of maximum intensity in the first half of the hydraulic jump roller, and the fluctuations exhibited some characteristic frequencies typically below 3 Hz. The air–water flow properties showed two characteristic regions: the shear layer region in the lower part of the flow and an upper free-surface region above. The air–water shear layer region was characterised by local maxima in terms of void fraction and bubble count rate. Other air–water flow characteristics were documented including the distributions of interfacial velocity and turbulence intensity. The probability distribution functions (PDF) of bubble chord time showed that the bubble chord times exhibited a broad spectrum, with a majority of bubble chord times between 0.5 and 2 ms. An analysis of the longitudinal air–water structure highlighted a significant proportion of bubbles travelling within a cluster structure.     

An Improved Weighting Method for Inversely Determining Elastic Constants of Coating Layers from Dispersion Curves of Surface Acoustic Waves

This paper investigates the inversion of elastic constants of a coating layer from measured dispersion curves of a layered half-space sample. A systematic analysis on the sensitivity of dispersion curves is performed and the results provide important information in constructing a better inversion process. Numerical simulation has been given to demonstrate several possibilities for obtaining accurate elastic constants from the measured dispersion data over different frequency domains. Experiments have also been carried out using broadband Poly(vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene) [P(VDF-TrFE)] focusing transducers and their surface wave measurement system over a wide frequency range of 4?~?120 MHz. Nickel coating layers electroplated on thick glass substrates are tested for the inversion. It is observed that the proposed inversion method, which carefully chooses the dispersion data at specific frequency ranges as well as adding some weightings to them, is indeed significantly improve the accuracy and convergence of the obtained elastic constants of the coated nickel layers. Young’s modulus of the coated nickel layers is also measured by a nano-indentation system and the results show good agreement with the data determined by the proposed inversion method.     

Numerical Simulation of Acoustic Waves Interacting with a Shock Wave in a Quasi-ID Convergent-Divergent Nozzle Using an Unstructured Finite Volume Algorithm

Numerical simulations of a very small amplitude acoustic wave interacting with a shock wave in a quasi-ID convergent-divergent nozzle is performed using an unstructured finite volume algorithm with piece-wise linear, least square reconstruction, Roe flux difference splitting, and second-order MacCormack time marching. First, the spatial accuracy of the algorithm is evaluated for steady flows with and without the normal shock by running the simulation with a sequence of successively finer meshes. Then the accuracy of the Roe flux difference splitting near the sonic transition point is examined for different reconstruction schemes. Finally, the unsteady numerical solutions with the acoustic perturbation are presented and compared with linear theory results.     

利用欧拉-拉格朗日方法预测层流泡状流的含气率分布

利用欧拉-拉格朗日方法，提出了用于预测竖直管道内绝热层流泡状流中含气率分布的三维模型。该模型能够跟踪单独的气泡轨迹，从而获取更多的界面力信息；同时气泡尺寸可以作为参数之一引入模型，使含气率分布的计算更为方便。模型中分析了绝热层流泡状流中气泡的各项受力表达式，建立了两种描述方法下的气液两相间的耦合关系。利用现有实验数据对模型进行的检验表明，该模型能够预测一定尺寸范围内气泡的分布；气泡径向分布主要取决于气泡所受侧向提升力。对于更大尺寸的气泡，气泡变形和气泡尾迹与当地流场间相互作用将对侧向提升力产生很大影响。     

A New Approach in Modeling Phase Distribution in Fully Developed Bubbly Pipe Flow

Turbulent two-phase flow equations are derived and solved for fully developed pipe flow using a composite eddy-viscosity model and a new void-fraction equation. The void fraction profile is first specified from experiments and the velocity field is calculated to validate the eddy-viscosity model. Consequently, a new equation is presented for calculation of the void fraction. This void-fraction equation incorporates the gradient of turbulent normal stresses in the radial direction, the conventional lift force, and a contribution from the unsteady drag force. The implications of this new equation, for the bubbly flow regime, are investigated by calculating the void-fraction distribution for a given velocity field. Inclusion of the normal turbulent stresses in the radial direction is shown to simulate correctly the experimentally observed trends of the phase distribution, both for upward and downward bubbly flow, without the need for a fictitious term such as the so called ``lubrication force'. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Characteristic Properties and Exact Solutions of the Kinetic Equation of Bubbly Liquid

The paper considers a kinetic model for the motion of incompressible bubbles in an ideal liquid that takes into account their collective interaction in the case of one spatial variable. Generalized characteristics and a characteristic form of the equations are found. Necessary and sufficient hyperbolicity conditions of the integrodifferential model of rarefied bubbly flow are formulated. Exact solutions of the kinetic equation for the class of traveling waves are derived. A solution of the linearized equation is obtained.     

Recent Advances in Nanotribology of Ionic Liquids

Experimental Mechanics - Ionic liquids (ILs) have recently attracted considerable attention in tribology owing to their unique physico-chemical properties and promising lubrication performance when...