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Thermodynamic effects during growth and collapse of a single cavitation bubble

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 November 2013

Matevž Dular  and
Olivier Coutier-Delgosha
Matevž Dular*
Affiliation:
Laboratory for Water and Turbine Machines, University of Ljubljana, Aškerčeva 6, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Olivier Coutier-Delgosha
Affiliation:
LML Laboratory, Arts et Metiers ParisTech, 8 Boulevard Louis XIV, 59046 Lille, France
*
†Email address for correspondence: matevz.dular@fs.uni-lj.si
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Abstract

The thermodynamic effects associated with the growth and collapse of a single cavitation bubble are investigated in the present paper by an experimental approach. The study focuses on the temperature variations in the liquid surrounding the bubble. Experiments are conducted in a cylinder partially filled with water at an ambient temperature and atmospheric pressure. The bubble growth results from the expansion of an initial air bubble, due to the pressure wave generated by a so-called ‘tube-arrest’ method. Several locations of the bubble, at different distances from the bottom wall of the cylinder, are considered. The bottom wall is made of sapphire, which is transparent to both the visible and infrared light spectra which enables temperature measurements by a high-speed thermovision camera at a wavelength of 3– $5~\unicode[.5,0][STIXGeneral,Times]{x03BC} \mathrm{m} $ . Water is opaque to the infrared light spectrum, hence only temperatures in the boundary layer and on the liquid vapour interface could be determined. A temperature decrease of ${\sim }3$  K was recorded during the bubble growth while an increase up to 4 K was detected during the collapse. Experimental results are compared to the predictions of the ‘thermal delay’ model based on the assumption that the bubble growth and collapse are due to phase changes only. In this approach, the temperature variations are related to the latent heat exchanges during the vapourization and condensation processes. On the basis of these results, the respective effects of phase change and air dilatation/compression in the bubble dynamics are discussed.

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Drops and Bubbles: Cavitation Drops and Bubbles: Drops and Bubbles Phase change: Phase change

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 736 , 10 December 2013 , pp. 44 - 66
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©2013 Cambridge University Press 

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