Chen, X.M.Prosperetti, Andrea2020-03-102020-03-101998-19-01Copyright 1998 The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. Recommended citation: Chen, X. M., and A. Prosperetti. "Thermal processes in the oscillations of gas bubbles in tubes." The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 104, no. 3 (1998): 1389-1398. DOI: 10.1121/1.424348 URL: https://asa.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1121/1.424348 Reproduced in accordance with the original publisher’s licensing terms and with permission from the author(s).https://hdl.handle.net/10657/6102The forced oscillations of a system consisting of two finite liquid columns in a duct separated by a gas bubble are studied in the linear approximation. It is found that thermal processes in the gas induce a very significant damping in the system, which can exceed viscous damping even in capillaries with a submillimeter diameter. The study is motivated by the possibility of using gas bubbles as actuators in microdevices.en-USN/Aarticle