Suppressing dissociation in sonoluminescing bubbles: The effect of excluded volume

Toegel, Ruediger and Hilgenfeldt, Sascha and Lohse, Detlef (2002) Suppressing dissociation in sonoluminescing bubbles: The effect of excluded volume. Physical Review Letters, 88 (03). 034301-1-034301-4. ISSN 0031-9007

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Abstract:	Recent theoretical work in single-bubble sonoluminescence has suggested that water vapor in the collapsing bubble leads to energy-consuming chemical reactions, restricting the peak temperatures to values for which hardly any light emission could occur. Analyzing the reaction thermodynamics within the dense, collapsed bubble, we demonstrate that the excluded volume of the nonideal gas results in pronounced suppression of the particle-producing endothermic reactions. Thus, sufficiently high temperatures for considerable bremsstrahlung emission can be achieved.
Item Type:	Article
Copyright:	© 2002 The American Physical Society
Faculty:	Science and Technology (TNW)
Research Group:	Physics of Fluids (POF)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/36520
Official URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.034301
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