The effect of viscosity on the spherical stability of oscillating gas bubbles

Date

1999-06

Journal Title

Journal ISSN

Volume Title

Publisher

The Physics of Fluids

Abstract

Gas bubbles driven in radial oscillations are subject to an instability of the spherical shape that is opposed by surface tension and viscosity. An exact linear formulation for the study of the phenomenon has been available for many years, but its complexity has discouraged a detailed investigation. With the recent theory of sonoluminescence of Lohse and co-workers [Hilgenfeldt et al., Phys. Fluids, 8, 2808 (1996)], there has been a renewed interest in the problem and new data have become available. This paper presents a numerical method for the solution of the pertinent equations and compares the theory with these new data. The coupling of the strong nonlinearity of the bubble radial oscillations with the parametric mechanism of the surface instability results in a very complex structure for the stability boundary. Nevertheless, a good agreement between theory and data is found. A comparison with earlier approximate models is also made.

Description

Keywords

Representation theory, Sonoluminescence

Citation

Copyright 1999 Physics of Fluids. Recommended citation: Hao, Y., and Andrea Prosperetti. "The effect of viscosity on the spherical stability of oscillating gas bubbles." Physics of Fluids 11, no. 6 (1999): 1309-1317. DOI: 10.1063/1.869996 URL: https://aip.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/1.869996 Reproduced in accordance with the original publisher’s licensing terms and with permission from the author(s).