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A new pressure formulation for gas-compressibility dampening in bubble dynamics models

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ULTRASONICS SONOCHEMISTRY
Volume 32, Issue -, Pages 247-257

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ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultsonch.2016.03.013

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Inhomogeneous pressure; Incompressible; Compressible; Bubble dynamics; Rayleigh-Plesset equations

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We formulated a pressure equation for bubbles performing nonlinear radial oscillations under ultrasonic high pressure amplitudes. The proposed equation corrects the gas pressure at the gas-liquid interface on inertial bubbles. This pressure formulation, expressed in terms of gas-Mach number, accounts for dampening due to gas compressibility during the violent collapse of cavitation bubbles and during subsequent rebounds. We refer to this as inhomogeneous pressure, where the gas pressure at the gas liquid interface can differ to the pressure at the centre of the bubble, in contrast to homogenous pressure formulations that consider that pressure inside the bubble is spatially uniform from the wall to the centre. The pressure correction was applied to two bubble dynamic models: the incompressible Rayleigh-Plesset equation and the compressible Keller and Miksis equation. This improved the predictions of the nonlinear radial motion of the bubble vs time obtained with both models. Those simulations were also compared with other bubble dynamics models that account for liquid and gas compressibility effects. It was found that our corrected models are in closer agreement with experimental data than alternative models. It was concluded that the Rayleigh Plesset family of equations improve accuracy by using our proposed pressure correction. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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