| Abstract: | The conditions of development of bubble cavitation in liquid media upon shock-wave loading are found. It is s shown that,
for the development of an unbounded cavitation, the bubbles should grow to certain critical sizes sufficient for their transition
to a nonequilibrium state owing to the elastic energy transferred by a rarefaction wave to a liquid sample (at the stage of
unloading). In contrast to low-viscosity liquids, in high-viscosity ones (such as glycerin) these conditions cannot be satisfied
for any really attainable parameters of shock waves.
Lavrent'ev Institute of Hydrodynamics, Siberian Division, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk 630090. Translated from
Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 41, No. 2, pp. 53–63, March–April, 2000. |
