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Interaction of a Cavitation Bubble and an Air Bubble with a Rigid Boundary

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The motion of a spark-induced cavitation bubble and an air bubble near a rigid boundary is experimentally studied by using high-speed photography. Several dimensionless parameters are used to describe the geometrical configuration of the bubble-bubble-boundary interaction. The bubble-bubble interaction can be considered in two different conditions. The cavitation bubble will collapse towards the air bubble if the air bubble is relatively small, and away from the air bubble if the air bubble is relatively large. The two zones are identified in the bubble-boundary interaction, and they are the danger zone and the safety zone. The relative position, the bubble-boundary distance and the bubble-bubble distance play important roles in the bubble-bubble-boundary interaction, which can be considered in several conditions according to the responses of the bubbles. Air jets are found to penetrate into the cavitation bubbles. The cavitation bubble and the air bubble (air jet) move in their own way without mixing. The motion of a cavitation bubble may be influenced by an air bubble and/or a rigid boundary. The influence of the air bubble and the influence of the boundary may be combined, like some thing of a vector.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Hydraulics and Mountain River Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610065, China

    Wei-lin Xu & Fa-xing Zhang

  2. Institute of Acoustics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China

    Li-xin Bai

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Project supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (Grant Nos. 2007CB714105 And 2008BAB29B04).

Biography: XU Wei-lin (1963-), Male, Ph. D., Professor

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Xu, Wl., Bai, Lx. & Zhang, Fx. Interaction of a Cavitation Bubble and an Air Bubble with a Rigid Boundary. J Hydrodyn 22, 503–512 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1016/S1001-6058(09)60082-2

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