Controlled Multibubble Surface Cavitation

Bremond, Nicolas and Arora, Manish and Ohl, Claus-Dieter and Lohse, Detlef (2006) Controlled Multibubble Surface Cavitation. Physical Review Letters, 96 (22). p. 224501. ISSN 0031-9007

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Abstract:	Heterogeneous bubble nucleation at surfaces has been notorious because of its irreproducibility. Here controlled multibubble surface cavitation is achieved by using a hydrophobic surface patterned with microcavities. The expansion of the nuclei in the microcavities is triggered by a fast lowering of the liquid pressure. The procedure allows us to control and fix the bubble distance within the bubble cluster. We observe a perfect quantitative reproducibility of the cavitation events where the inner bubbles in the two-dimensional cluster are shielded by the outer ones, reflected by their later expansion and their delayed collapse. Apart from the final bubble collapse phase (when jetting flows directed towards the cluster's center develop), the bubble dynamics can be quantitatively described by an extended Rayleigh-Plesset equation, taking pressure modification through the surrounding bubbles into account.
Item Type:	Article
Copyright:	© 2006 American Physical Society
Faculty:	Science and Technology (TNW)
Research Group:	Physics of Fluids (POF)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/59080
Official URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.224501
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