Contributions to the acoustic excitation of bubbles released from a nozzle

It has recently been demonstrated that air bubbles released from a nozzle are excited into volume mode oscillations by the collapse of the neck of air formed at the moment of bubble detachment. A pulse of sound is caused by these breathing mode oscillations, and the sound of air-entraining flows is made up of many such pulses emitted as bubbles are created. This paper is an elaboration on a JASA-EL paper, which examined the acoustical excitation of bubbles released from a nozzle. Here, further details of the collapse of a neck of air formed at the moment of bubble formation and its implications for the emission of sound by newly formed bubbles are presented. The role of fluid surface tension was studied using high-speed photography and found to be consistent with a simple model for neck collapse. A re-entrant fluid jet forms inside the bubble just after detachment, and its role in acoustic excitation is assessed. It is found that for slowly-grown bubbles the jet does make a noticeable difference to the total volume decrease during neck collapse, but that it is not a dominant effect in the overall acoustic excitation.     

Gravitational radiation from a rotating protoneutron star

This paper discusses the gravitational radiation that accompanies the formation of a rotating protoneutron star. Mainly large-scale entropy inhomogeneities develope inside the star. As a result, bubbles of hot nuclear substance are formed, and convective motions arise: bubbles of hot neutron matter float to the surface of the star, while cold matter sinks to its center. Such large-scale motions of material give rise to an inhomogeneous mass distribution inside the star. Variable asymmetry appears in the mass distribution, and this causes gravitational radiation. Zh. éksp. Teor. Fiz. 113, 1153–1166 (April 1998)     

Modeling of the acoustic response from contrast agent microbubbles near a rigid wall

In ultrasonic targeted imaging, specially designed encapsulated microbubbles are used, which are capable of selectively adhering to the target site in the body. A challenging problem is to distinguish the echoes from such adherent agents from echoes produced by freely circulating agents. In the present paper, an equation of radial oscillation for an encapsulated bubble near a plane rigid wall is derived. The equation is then used to simulate the echo from a layer of contrast agents localized on a wall. The echo spectrum of adherent microbubbles is compared to that of free, randomly distributed microbubbles inside a vessel, in order to examine differences between the acoustic responses of free and adherent agents. It is shown that the fundamental spectral component of adherent bubbles is perceptibly stronger than that of free bubbles. This increase is accounted for by a more coherent summation of echoes from adherent agents and the acoustic interaction between the agents and the wall. For cases tested, the increase of the fundamental component caused by the above two effects is on the order of 8-9 dB. Bubble aggregates, which are observed experimentally to form near a wall due to secondary Bjerknes forces, increase the intensity of the fundamental component only if they are formed by bubbles whose radii are well below the resonant radius. If the formation of aggregates contributes to the growth of the fundamental component, the increase can exceed 17 dB. Statistical analysis for the comparison between adhering and free bubbles, performed over random space bubble distributions, gives p-values much smaller than 0.05.     

Critical thicknesses of electrostatic powder coatings from inside

A simple electrostatic model is applied to the charge powder coating of a grounded conductor eventually covered by insulating layers. The electric field inside the powder coating and its evolution during the process are established with also the corresponding evolution in the dielectric layer and some practical consequences are also discussed. The thickness of the charged powder layer is limited by two types of process: a self-limiting process related to the vanishing field in the air gap and a field strength process occurring on one of the two sides of the coating–dielectric interface. Inside the powder coating, the electric field induces an increased electrostatic pressure on the powder grains at the substrate–coating interface and a vanishing pressure on the grains at the coating–air interface. This internal field is amplified into air bubbles and it may be responsible for the back ionisation process and of the formation of moon craters via the ionisation of the air molecules followed by the pressure exerted by the ions pushed in the direction of the free surface. For each of these limits, analytical expressions are established and they permit to identify the role of physical properties of the deposited powder (particle size and dielectric constant) as well as the role of thickness, structure, and dielectric constant of the insulating substrate. The present approach explains the difficulty in obtaining thick coatings on thick insulating substrates or thick coatings from the use of too fine powder grains. Finally, different behaviours as a function of the size of the deposited powder grains are deduced from the contribution of the electric field to the velocity of the particles sticking to the surface. Then and for the first time, the present contribution underlines the important role of the subsurface composition and the need to characterize the structure, dimension and dielectric constant of this subsurface for various applications concerning electrostatic spraying and powder painting of plastics and of insulating coatings on metallic work pieces.     

Diamond-DLC double layer used in corrosive protective coating

Pinhole-free diamond layers can widely be used in sensor technology as resistive coating against electrolyte solutions. The diamond layers created with chemical vapour deposition technique (CVD) are pinhole-free only above a certain thickness (at least 2.4 μm). Such layer thicknesses reduce the application possibilities. On the other hand, thin (∼200 nm) diamond like carbon (DLC) layers deposited by pulsed laser deposition technique (PLD) are pinhole free but have adhesion or contiguity problems depending on layer thickness. Utilizing the advantages of these two techniques a combined method was developed in order to prepare a pinhole free thin diamond-DLC double layer, for corrosion protection coating. The effects of various deposition parameters (such as background gas, temperature, bias, layer thickness) on the protective properties of the layers have been studied.     

Detection of circulating bubbles in the intact mammal

Gas bubbles in the blood are believed responsible for the symptoms of decompression sickness. It is desired to design a system which will detect these bubbles if they appear in the circulation of a man undergoing decompression. Such bubbles will produce a signal on an ultrasonic Doppler flow-meter. A foetal heart detector was used for these experiments. The probe was placed on the chest over the heart. A guinea pig underwent a severe decompression and the Doppler signals were recorded.     

Skin formation and bubble growth during drying process of polymer solution

When a polymer solution with volatile solvent is dried, skins are often formed at the surface of the solution. It has been observed that after the skin is formed, bubbles often appear in the solution. We conducted experiments to clarify the relation between the skin formation and the bubble formation. We measured the time dependence of the thickness of the skin layer, the size of the bubbles, and the pressure in the solution. From our experiments, we concluded that i) the gas in the bubble is a mixture of solvent vapor and air dissolved in the solution, ii) the bubble nucleation is assisted by the pressure decrease in the solution covered by the skin layer, and iii) the growth of the bubbles is diffusion limited, mainly limited by the diffusion of air molecules dissolved in the solution.     

Features of the dynamics of postdetonation waves

We present the results of numerical investigations of the parameters of postdetonation waves forming at a passage from the zone occupied with a bubbly liquid formed by the detonation wave to a zone filled with a liquid without bubbles. The dependence of the pressure amplitude of detonation waves and postdetonation waves on the gas volumetric content of bubbles has been studied. A possibility of the detonation transfer through the layer of a bubble-free liquid separating the regions of the bubbly liquid has been shown, the map of possible situations at the detonation transfer through the layer of this liquid has been presented.     

Effects of an absorptive coating on the dynamics of underwater laser-induced shock process

The effects of an absorptive coating on the dynamics of underwater laser-induced shock process have been observed from the end of laser pulse to hundreds of microseconds after irradiation by time-resolved imaging techniques. A laser pulse of 13 ns at 1,064 nm was focused by a 40-mm focal length lens onto the surface of epoxy-resin blocks immersed in water to induce the shock process in the confining regime. A custom-designed time-resolved photoelasticity imaging technique and a high-speed laser stroboscopic videography technique in photoelasticity mode were used to analyze the evolution of shock waves in the water phase, the strength of stress waves in the solid phase, the oscillation of cavitation bubbles, and the generation of bubble-collapse-induced shock waves. We showed that black paint coating enhances the strength of laser-induced stress wave inside the solid, drives faster shock waves traveling in the water phase, and produces higher-energy cavitation bubbles. We propose that even at power densities of 1 GW/cm² and above, an absorptive coating can intensify the shock process by enhancing the absorption of laser energy by plasma.     

Characteristics of indirect laser-induced plasma from a thin film of oil on a metallic substrate

Optical emissions from the major and trace elements embodied in a transparent gel prepared from cooking oil were detected after the gel was spread in a thin film on a metallic substrate. Such emissions are due to the indirect breakdown of the coating layer. The generated plasma, a mixture of substances from the substrate, the layer, and the ambient gas, was characterized using emission spectroscopy. The characteristics of the plasma formed on the metal with and without the coating layer were investigated. The results showed that Al emission induced from the aluminum substrates coated with oil films extends away from the target surface to ablate the oil film. This finally formed a bifurcating circulation of aluminum vapor against a spherical confinement wall in the front of the plume, which differed from the evolution of the plasma induced from the uncoated aluminum target. The strongest emissions of elements from the oil films can be observed at 2 mm above the target after a detection delay of 1.0 μs. A high temperature zone has been observed in the plasma after the delay of 1.0 μs for the plasma induced from the coated metal. This higher temperature determined in the plasma allows the consideration of the sensitive detection of trace elements in liquids, gels, biological samples, or thin films.     

Validation of an approximate model for the thermal behavior in acoustically driven bubbles

The chemical production of radicals inside acoustically driven bubbles is determined by the local temperature inside the bubbles. Therefore, modeling of chemical reaction rates in bubbles requires an accurate evaluation of the temperature field and the heat exchange with the liquid. The aim of the present work is to compare a detailed partial differential equation model in which the temperature field is spatially resolved with an ordinary differential equation model in which the bubble contents are assumed to have a uniform average temperature and the heat exchanges are modeled by means of a boundary layer approximation. The two models show good agreement in the range of pressure amplitudes in which the bubble is spherically stable.     

Thermo-responsive copolymer coatings for flow regulation on demand in glass microcapillaries

This study presents thermo-responsive on-demand regulation of water flow rate in glass microcapillaries with a recently developed water-stable, stimuli-responsive poly(methyl methacrylate/N-isopropyl acrylamide) [P(MMA/NIPAM)] copolymer grafted at the inner walls. It is shown that the grafted coatings are stable and can withstand significant tractions under temperature variation. Such microcapillaries allow flow regulation on demand by changing temperature across the lower critical solution temperature (LCST) of the copolymer layer, which makes it swell or shrink, thus changing the bore available for pressure-driven flow. The grafted copolymer layers were subjected to different pressure drops applied to the capillary open ends, as well as to periodic temperature variation across the copolymer LCST to determine the best grafting conditions for microfluidic operation. Then, by varying the temperature, the flow rate in the capillaries was changed periodically on demand due to the swelling/shrinkage of the grafted copolymer layer. It was also shown that the entrapped air bubbles are present in the coating which can result in an apparent slip.     

Nonlinear oscillation and acoustic scattering of bubbles

The scattered acoustic pressure and scattered cross section of bubbles is studied using the scattered theory of bubbles. The nonlinear oscillations of bubbles and the scattering acoustic fields of a spherical bubble cluster are numerically simulated based on the bubble dynamic and fluid dynamic. The influences of the interaction between bubbles on scattering acoustic field of bubbles are researched. The results of numerical simulation show that the oscillation phases of bubbles are delayed to a certain extent at different positions in the bubble cluster, but the radii of bubbles during oscillation do not differ too much at different positions. Furthermore, directivity of the acoustic scattering of bubbles is obvious. The scattered acoustic pressures of bubbles are different at the different positions inside and outside of the bubble cluster. The scattering acoustic fields of a spherical bubble cluster depend on the driving pressure amplitude, driving frequency, the equilibrium radii of bubbles, bubble number and the radius of the spherical bubble cluster. These theoretical predictions provide a further understanding of physics behind ultrasonic technique and should be useful for guiding ultrasonic application.     

Ordering of gas bubbles during light ion gas implantation

There have been interesting observations about ordering of microstructures during irradiation. The formation of void lattices is amongst the better known examples. Ordering has also been observed in small gas filled bubbles formed during low energy light ion implantation in the energy range 30–100 keV. The basic underlying mechanism for ordering of gas bubbles has not been clearly understood so far. We identify in this paper a basic instability in the growth kinetics of such bubbles which can develop during irradiation. This instability is shown to be associated with the interstitial production due to the high pressure inside these bubbles and their differential bias due to the strain field interactions with vacancies and interstitials. It is shown that such an instability leads to a selection of a wavelength scale which agrees with the observed lattice parameter.     

Statistical characteristics of acoustic signals reflected from maritime vessels during contintuous emission

The paper presents the results of experimental studies of fluctuations in echo signals from maritime vessels under conditions of near echo ranging with continuous targeted emission and reception at a frequency of 80 kHz. Data have been obtained on the fluctuation intensity, distribution functions, spectra, and time coherency fluctuations of echo signals at various vessel velocities for different reflecting and scattering areas of vessel hulls, different areas of the scattering layer of air bubbles formed at the hull of a moving vessel, and the cloud of air bubbles remaining behind the stern after a vessel has passed.     

Studies on threshold pressures of sonoluminescence for bubbles with different noble gases

Large oscillations of gas and vapor filled bubbles in liquid during acoustic cavitation. This highly nonlinear bubble motion is accompanied by the emission of light-sonoluminescence (SL)[1, 2]. The noble gases inside the bubble can influence the SL[3—5]. At an acoustic pressure, the intensity of SL increases with the molecular mass of noble gas inside the bubbles[6]. There are several kinds of theories about SL mechanism. At present, the bremsstrahlung mechanism is widely admitted. The b…     

Biomimetic Ca-P coating on pre-calcified Ti plates by electrodeposition method

A new electrodeposition method was presented for Ca-P coating on pre-calcified titanium (PTi) plates at room temperature. The biomimetic coating morphology was investigated by scanning electron microscopy (SEM). X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) results indicated that the functional TiO_x layer with groups of -Ca and -OH was formed on PTi surface after pre-calcified chemical treatment. The TiO_x layer showed a lower water contact angle and lower surface energy than those of pure titanium surfaces, and the PTi surface natures are benefited by coupling biomimetic Ca-P layer with bioactivity in the electrodeposition process. Moreover, the crystallization of Ca-P precipitate and the bond strength of coating to PTi substrates were improved significantly by post-treatments. Our results suggest this new coating process and its subsequent application to biomedical implant devices.     

Radical production inside an acoustically driven microbubble

The chemical production of radicals inside acoustically driven bubbles is determined by the local temperature inside the bubbles and by their composition at collapse. By means of a previously validated ordinary differential equations (ODE) model [L. Stricker, A. Prosperetti, D. Lohse, Validation of an approximate model for the thermal behavior in acoustically driven bubbles, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 130 (5) (2011) 3243–3251], based on boundary layer assumption for mass and heat transport, we study the influence of different parameters on the radical production. We perform different simulations by changing the driving frequency and pressure, the temperature of the surrounding liquid and the composition of the gas inside the bubbles. In agreement with the experimental conditions of new generation sonochemical reactors, where the bubbles undergo transient cavitation oscillations [D. F. Rivas, L. Stricker, A. Zijlstra, H. Gardeniers, D. Lohse, A. Prosperetti, Ultrasound artificially nucleated bubbles and their sonochemical radical production, Ultrason. Sonochem. 20 (1) (2013) 510–524], we mainly concentrate on the initial chemical transient and we suggest optimal working ranges for technological applications. The importance of the chemical composition at collapse is reflected in the model, including the role of entrapped water vapor. We in particular study the exothermal reactions taking place in H₂ and O₂ mixtures. At the exact stoichiometric mixture 2:1 the highest internal bubble temperatures are achieved.     

Interaction between phases in the liquid–gas system

This work analyzes the equilibrium between a liquid and a gas over this liquid separated by an interface. Various gas forms exist inside the liquid: dissolved gas molecules attached to solvent molecules, free gas molecules, and gaseous bubbles. Thermodynamic equilibrium is maintained between two phases; the first phase is the liquid containing dissolved and free molecules, and the second phase is the gas over the liquid and bubbles inside it. Kinetics of gas transition between the internal and external gas proceeds through bubbles and includes the processes of bubbles floating up and bubble growth as a result of association due to the Smoluchowski mechanism. Evolution of a gas in the liquid is considered using the example of oxygen in water, and numerical parameters of this system are given. In the regime under consideration for an oxygen–water system, transport of oxygen into the surrounding air proceeds through micron-size bubbles with lifetimes of hours. This regime is realized if the total number of oxygen molecules in water is small compared with the numbers of solvated and free molecules in the liquid.     

高密度氦相变的分子动力学研究

采用分子动力学方法结合对关联函数分析计算了0–1000 K范围内氦的固–液相变曲线, 与实验数据的对比显示, 在0–500 K之间与实验数据符合很好, 500 K以上还没有相应的实验数据. 另外, 计算了钛金属中不同尺寸氦泡的压强, 并与高密度氦的固–液相变曲线进行了对比. 结果显示, 在低温条件下, 随着温度的降低, 钛晶体中可能会出现固态氦泡; 在300 K以上不会存在固态氦泡.