Water cavitation of hydrogels

Using the cavitation rheology (CR) technique developed in our labs, we show that fluids with negligible interfacial tensions with a surrounding material can be used to induce an elastic, cavitation instability in that material. We do this by changing the cavitation media from air, which was demonstrated to induce cavitation at the tip of a syringe needle in previous studies, to water, which has a negligible surface tension with the surrounding poly(vinyl alcohol) hydrogel material. In this case, the critical pressure in which this instability occurs can be directly related to the elastic modulus of the surrounding network and is shown to be nearly independent of length scale. This independence of size scale has important implications in the use of CR for the characterization of mechanical properties from molecular to macroscopic length scales. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part B: Polym Phys 48: 1423–1427, 2010     

Study on the bubble transport mechanism in an acoustic standing wave field

The use of bubbles in applications such as surface chemistry, drug delivery, and ultrasonic cleaning etc. has been enormously popular in the past two decades. It has been recognized that acoustically-driven bubbles can be used to disturb the flow field near a boundary in order to accelerate physical or chemical reactions on the surface. The interactions between bubbles and a surface have been studied experimentally and analytically. However, most of the investigations focused on violently oscillating bubbles (also known as cavitation bubble), less attention has been given to understand the interactions between moderately oscillating bubbles and a boundary. Moreover, cavitation bubbles were normally generated in situ by a high intensity laser beam, little experimental work has been carried out to study the translational trajectory of a moderately oscillating bubble in an acoustic field and subsequent interactions with the surface. This paper describes the design of an ultrasonic test cell and explores the mechanism of bubble manipulation within the test cell. The test cell consists of a transducer, a liquid medium and a glass backing plate. The acoustic field within the multi-layered stack was designed in such a way that it was effectively one dimensional. This was then successfully simulated by a one dimensional network model. The model can accurately predict the impedance of the test cell as well as the mode shape (distribution of particle velocity and stress/pressure field) within the whole assembly. The mode shape of the stack was designed so that bubbles can be pushed from their injection point onto a backing glass plate. Bubble radial oscillation was simulated by a modified Keller–Miksis equation and bubble translational motion was derived from an equation obtained by applying Newton’s second law to a bubble in a liquid medium. Results indicated that the bubble trajectory depends on the acoustic pressure amplitude and initial bubble size: an increase of pressure amplitude or a decrease of bubble size forces bubbles larger than their resonant size to arrive at the target plate at lower heights, while the trajectories of smaller bubbles are less influenced by these factors. The test cell is also suitable for testing the effects of drag force on the bubble motion and for studying the bubble behavior near a surface.     

小尺寸矩形槽道内气泡生长及运动特性

通过实验研究了液体流动条件下小尺寸矩形槽道底部由微孔注入的气泡生长及运动特性。结合RCD算法与形心提取算法,有效地跟踪了气泡生长及运动轨迹。实验结果表明:气泡的形成过程可分为生长和涌入两个阶段;随着气体流量的增大,后续小气泡的涌入加强,涌入持续时间更长,气泡形成时间增加,等待时间缩短;槽道中小气泡的堆积现象随气体流量的增大而愈加明显。     

基于MPS方法的汽泡凝结数值模拟研究

采用移动粒子半隐式(MPS)方法对静止过冷水中单个汽泡的凝结现象进行了数值模拟,研究了不同初始压力和初始直径时饱和蒸汽汽泡凝结过程,获得了凝结过程中汽泡形状、当量直径和压力的变化规律;汽泡初始压力为0.1～0.5MPa,初始直径为2mm、3mm和5mm;过冷水压力为0.1MPa,温度为70℃。结果表明两相界面不存在压差时,凝结过程中汽泡始终保持球形,汽泡当量直径逐渐减小,压力近似不变;相界面存在压差时,凝结过程中汽泡从球形逐渐变为心形、半月形,汽泡当量直径和压力会出现周期性振荡,且初始压力越大振荡幅度越大。     

Uniformly convergent C 0‐nonconforming triangular prism element for fourth‐order elliptic singular perturbation problem

In this article, we introduce a C ⁰‐nonconforming triangular prism element for the fourth‐order elliptic singular perturbation problem in three dimensions by using the bubble functions. The element is proved to be convergent in the energy norm uniformly with respect to the perturbation parameter. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq 30: 1785–1796, 2014     

垂直低温两相流管底液氮汽泡上升速度的实验研究

本文对垂直低温两相流管底部液氮汽泡的上升速度运用高速摄像机进行了可视化实验研究,对所采集的实时图像进行处理.在Cole和Mendelson汽泡上升速度经验公式的基础上,通过对液氮汽泡的上升速度的分析,提出了圆管管路底部液氮汽泡的上升速度的拟合公式,分析研究其变化规律,为进一步探求圆管内液氮弹状汽泡的生成机理提供依据.     

A General Cavitation Model for the Highly Nonlinear Mie-Grüneisen Equation of State

A general one-fluid cavitation model is proposed for a family of Mie-Grüneisen equations of state (EOS), which can provide a wide application of cavitation flows, such as liquid-vapour transformation and underwater explosion. An approximate Riemann problem and its approximate solver for the general cavitation model are developed. The approximate solver, which provides the interface pressure and normal velocity by an iterative method, is applied in computing the numerical flux at the phase interface for our compressible multi-medium flow simulation on Eulerian grids. Several numerical examples, including Riemann problems and underwater explosion applications, are presented to validate the cavitation model and the corresponding approximate solver.     

含气量对液体中空泡声波频谱特性的影响

通过压电陶瓷（PZT）水听器获取了液体中激光空泡脉动辐射的声波,并计算了激光空泡在第1次脉动过程中泡内的含气量,结合空泡含气量对空泡最大半径及脉动周期影响的分析,进而分析了含气量对空泡声波频谱特性的影响。分析结果表明：激光空泡第1次脉动过程中泡内的含气量随着作用激光能量的增加而增加,含气量的多少将直接影响空泡运动的剧烈程度;含气量越多,空泡脉动越缓慢,脉动周期越长,空泡脉动辐射声波的峰值频率有向低频移动的趋势。     

混响场中脉冲超声空化效应的研究

本文实验研究了不同脉冲宽度的８２０ｋＨｚ超声波的空化效应，结果得出，空化致自基产量随脉冲宽度及声强呈现规律性变化，尤其观察到了“脉冲空化峰”现象，本文从液面受迫振动角度出混响场中“脉冲空化峰”现象的机制。