1. Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Caixa Postal 68.528, 21945-970, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil 2. Department of Physics, University of Arizona, 85721, Tucson, AZ, USA
Abstract:
We develop a variational approximation allowing to study under realistic physical conditions the interior dynamics of cavitating gas bubbles in liquids. We discuss in some detail the intricacy of the gas bubble dynamics related to the small size of the system. We also show how to formulate the problem in the framework of the energy equation for non-adiabatic processes.