Does water vapor prevent upscaling sonoluminescence?

Togel, Rudiger and Gompf, Bruno and Pecha, Rainer and Lohse, Detlef (2000) Does water vapor prevent upscaling sonoluminescence? Physical Review Letters, 85 (15). pp. 3165-3168. ISSN 0031-9007

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Abstract:	Experimental results for single-bubble sonoluminescence of air bubbles at very low frequency f = 7.1 kHz are presented: In contrast to the predictions of a recent model [S. Hilgenfeldt and D. Lohse, Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 1036 (1999)], the bubbles are only as bright ( 104¿105 photons per pulse) and the pulses as long ( ¿150 ps) as at f = 20 kHz. We can theoretically account for this effect by incorporating water vapor into the model: During the rapid bubble collapse a large amount of water vapor is trapped inside the bubble, resulting in an increased heat capacity and hence lower temperatures, i.e., hindering upscaling. At this low frequency water vapor also dominates the light emission process.
Item Type:	Article
Copyright:	© 2000 The American Physical Society
Faculty:	Science and Technology (TNW)
Research Group:	Physics of Fluids (POF)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/24784
Official URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.3165
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