Fragmentation of cavitation bubble in ultrasound field under small pressure amplitude

Takuya Yamamoto; Shin-Ichi Hatanaka; Sergey V Komarov

doi:10.1016/j.ultsonch.2019.104684

Fragmentation of cavitation bubble in ultrasound field under small pressure amplitude

Ultrason Sonochem. 2019 Nov:58:104684. doi: 10.1016/j.ultsonch.2019.104684. Epub 2019 Jul 19.

Authors

Takuya Yamamoto¹, Shin-Ichi Hatanaka², Sergey V Komarov³

Affiliations

¹ Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Tohoku University, Miyagi 980-8579, Japan. Electronic address: t-yamamoto@tohoku.ac.jp.
² Graduate School of Informatics and Engineering, The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo 182-8585, Japan.
³ Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Tohoku University, Miyagi 980-8579, Japan.

PMID: 31450353
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultsonch.2019.104684

Abstract

In the present study, dynamic behavior and fragmentation mechanism of acoustic cavitation bubbles are investigated under relatively small pressure amplitudes of ultrasonic wave through a three-dimensional compressive multiphase flow simulation and experimental observations. It is found that the oscillating bubble takes a non-spherical shape soon after occurring the Rayleigh collapse following the sound pressure distribution around the bubble. Then, the amplitude of non-spherical deformation is enhanced during small high-frequent oscillations after the Rayleigh collapse due to the fluid inertial effect. Finally, the oscillating bubble is fragmented into two smaller ones with the Laplace pressure gradient becoming the final trigger of bubble fragmentation. Besides, the results reveal that the temperature of bubble surface is varied when the non-spherical bubble deformation is large, while during spherical bubble oscillations the surface temperature remains almost unchanged.

Keywords: Acoustic cavitation; Bubble fragmentation; Non-linear oscillation; Volume of fluid (VOF) method.