Leighton T.G. The Acoustic Bubble

1992 ? 633 p.The Sound Field
The Acoustic Wave
Introduction: Acoustic Regimes
The Longitudinal Wave
Acoustic Impedance
AcousticIntensity
Radiation Pressure
Reflection
Standing Waves
Attenuation
Practical Ultrasonic Fields
Characteristics
Transducers: the Generation and Detection of Underwater Sound
Nonlinear Effects in Underwater Ultrasound BeamsCavitation Inception and Fluid Dynamics
The Bubble
Surface Tension Pressure
Cavitation Inception
Response of a Bubble to a Static Pressure
Fluid Dynamics
The Equation of Continuity
Eulers Equation
The General Wave Equation
Laplace's Equation
The Translating Bubble
Fluid Dynamics of a Rigid Sphere
Flow in Viscous LiquidsThe Freely-oscillating BubbleThe Unforced Oscillator
The Equilibrium Position
The Undamped Oscillator
The Pulsating, Spherical Bubble
Introduction: the Minnaert Frequency
The Pulsating Bubble as a Simple Oscillator
The Radiating Spherical Bubble
The Pressure Radiated by a Pulsator
Monopole Close to Boundaries
Damping
Basic Physics
Damping of a Spherical Pulsating Bubble
Experimental Investigations of Bubble Injection
A Simple Experiment for a Pulsating Spherical Bubble
The Injection Process
Nonspherical Bubble Oscillations
Bubble Entrainment in the Natural World
Babbling Brooks, Rain and the Sea: Situations and Applications
The Underwater Sound of Rain
Bubble Entrainment from a Free Surface: the Excitation Mechanism
Oceanic Bubbles
Characteristics of Oceanic Bubble Populations
Acoustic Effects of Oceanic BubblesThe Forced Bubble
The Forced Linear Oscillator
The Undamped Driven Oscillator
The Damped Forced Oscillator
Nonlinear Equations of Motion for the Spherical Pulsating Bubble
The Rayleigh-Plesset Equation
Other Equations of Motion
Numerical Solutions of the Rayleigh-Plesset Equation: Stable and Unstable Cavitation
Transient Cavitation
Transient Cavitation Threshold
Definition of Transient Cavitation
Surface Instabilities
Experimental Observation of Cavitation
Stable Cavitation
Radiation Forces
The Damping of Bubbles
Rectified Diffusion
Thresholds and Regimes for the Spherical Pulsating Bubble
Microstreaming During Stable Cavitation
Shape and Surface Mode Oscillations During Stable Cavitation
Acoustic Emissions from Driven Bubbles
Classes of Stable Cavitation
Summary of the Theory for a Single Bubble
Population PhenomenaEffects and Mechanisms
Bubble Detection
The Detection of Pre-existing Stable Bubbles
The Ultrasonic Detection of Short-lived Transient Cavitation
Sonoluminescence
Mechanisms
Characteristics of Sonoluminescence
Sonoluminescence from Stable Cavitation
Cavitation in Standing-wave Fields
The Enhancement of Cavitation by Acoustic Pulsing and Sample Rotation
Pulse Enhancement
Rotation Enhancement of Acoustic CavitationAcoustic Cavitation: Effects on the Local Environment
Erosion and Damage
Bioeffects of Ultrasound: the Role of Cavitation