The effects of buoyancy on sonoluminescing bubbles
<p style="text-align:justify;"> Sonoluminescence from a single bubble was studied under microgravity and hypergravity environments to determine how buoyancy affects the light emission. The long-term objective of these experiments is to determine if buoyancy-related instabilities pla...
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Acoustical Society of America
2000
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| Summary: | <p style="text-align:justify;"> Sonoluminescence from a single bubble was studied under microgravity and hypergravity environments to determine how buoyancy affects the light emission. The long-term objective of these experiments is to determine if buoyancy-related instabilities play a role in limiting the parameter space of single-bubble sonoluminescence. Understanding the parameter space limitations may ultimately lead to novel approaches for enhancing the extreme conditions within the bubble. Our results reveal several buoyancy-related effects, which should be further investigated in an extended microgravity environment. </p> |
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