Kamath, VinodProsperetti, AndreaEgolfopoulos, F.N.2020-03-102020-03-101993-07Copyright 1993 The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. Recommended citation: Kamath, V., A. Prosperetti, and F. N. Egolfopoulos. "A theoretical study of sonoluminescence." The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 94, no. 1 (1993): 248-260. DOI: 10.1121/1.407083 URL: https://asa.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1121/1.407083 Reproduced in accordance with the original publisher’s licensing terms and with permission from the author(s).https://hdl.handle.net/10657/6088The production of OH radicals by dissociation of water vapor in oscillating argon bubbles is studied theoretically to examine a possible mechanism for the emission of the 310?nm line observed in sonoluminescence experiments. Accurate models are used for the calculation of the temperature field in the gas and for the description of the associated chemical kinetics. Heat transfer between the bubble and the liquid is found to play a dominant role in the process. At the low excitation amplitudes considered, the bubble radius is also an important parameter.en-USChemical elementsChemical kinetics and dynamicsSonoluminescenceThermodynamic states and processesarticle