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Experimental Study of the Processes of Formation, Drift and Levitation of Vapor–Gas Bubbles in Water Containing Surfactant Under the Action of Ultrasound

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The work is devoted to the investigation of the peculiarities of the formation, dynamics and coalescence of vapor–gas bubbles as a result of continuous ultrasonic (US) exposure to a liquids containing anionic surfactant of various concentrations. It is found that large bubbles of millimeter size which are formed in pure water due to coalescence processes, freely rise to the surface. With time, the number of bubbles in water decreases according to a law close to an inverse proportionality. In the presence of surfactant, the area of bubbles recorded by the camera does not change over time; this is apparently associated with the formation of only small bubbles of the order of ten microns, which is caused by the process of inhibition of coalescence by surfactant. Small bubbles are not able to rise to the surface, due to the prevalence of viscous forces over the buoyancy force. Thus, it can be supposed that the surfactant reduces the rate of the liquid degassing process.

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The reported study was funded by RFBR, project number 19-31-90138.

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    O. Fattalov, T. Lyubimova, K. Rybkin & M. Kuchinskiy

  2. Institute of Continuous Media Mechanics UB RAS, 1, Koroleva Str, 614013, Perm, Russia

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Fattalov, O., Lyubimova, T., Rybkin, K. et al. Experimental Study of the Processes of Formation, Drift and Levitation of Vapor–Gas Bubbles in Water Containing Surfactant Under the Action of Ultrasound. Microgravity Sci. Technol. 33, 24 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12217-021-09873-9

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