MS380 - Cavitation and Bubble Dynamics
Keywords: Cavitation, Fluid and Solid Mechanics, Bubble dynamics
Cavitation and microbubble dynamics are important in a wide range of fluid and solid dynamics contexts including naval hydrodynamics, focused ultrasound therapies, and soft material rheometry. The dynamics involve inertial volume oscillations and/or non-spherical bubble surface perturbations of single or population of bubbles in liquid or viscoelastic surroundings. For example, ultrasound therapies can be used to induce inertial cavitation in soft tissues and non-spherical bubble surface perturbations to induce microjets for drug delivery applications. During inertial collapse and upon reaching minimum volume, the kinetic energy is concentrated into the bubble. The energy is then released as a radial shock that propagates into the surroundings. The implosion may also lead to local damage (e.g., cavitation erosion on surfaces, soft tissue ablation, and encapsulating shells buckling for diagnostic ultrasound).
Open challenges remain to accurately predict bubble dynamics and surrounding material behavior [1]. Chief among the challenges is converging modeling and experimental efforts given multiscale modeling difficulties and optical and time resolution limitations [2], respectively. The aim of this minisymposium is to bring together modeling and experimental bubble dynamics scholars to share the latest developments and ideas. Submissions from experiments, modeling, and theory across length scales with applications in fluids and solid mechanics, biomedicine, and energy sciences are welcomed.
