Scaling laws for jets of single cavitation bubbles

By O. Supponen, D. Obreschkow, Marc Tinguely, P. Kobel, N. Dorsaz, Mohamed Farhat. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2016

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Fast liquid jets, called micro-jets, are produced within cavitation bubbles experiencing an aspherical collapse. Here we review micro-jets of different origins, scales and appearances, and propose a unified framework to describe their dynamics by using an anisotropy parameter $\unicode[STIX]{x1D701}\geqslant 0$ , representing a dimensionless measure of the liquid momentum at the collapse point (Kelvin impulse). This parameter is rigorously defined for various jet drivers, including gravity and nearby boundaries. Combining theoretical considerations with hundreds of high-speed visualisations of bubbles collapsing near a rigid surface, near a free surface or in variable gravity, we classify the jets into three distinct regimes: weak, intermediate and strong. Weak jets ( $\unicode[STIX]{x1D701}<10^{-3}$ ) hardly pierce the bubble, but remain within it throughout the collapse and rebound. Intermediate jets ( $10^{-3}<\unicode[STIX]{x1D701}<0.1$ ) pierce the opposite bubble wall close to the last collapse phase and clearly emerge during the rebound. Strong jets ( $\unicode[STIX]{x1D701}>0.1$ ) pierce the bubble early during the collapse. The dynamics of the jets is analysed through key observables, such as the jet impact time, jet speed, bubble displacement, bubble volume at jet impact and vapour-jet volume. We find that, upon normalising these observables to dimensionless jet parameters, they all reduce to straightforward functions of $\unicode[STIX]{x1D701}$ , which we can reproduce numerically using potential flow theory. An interesting consequence of this result is that a measurement of a single observable, such as the bubble displacement, suffices to estimate any other parameter, such as the jet speed. Remarkably, the dimensionless parameters of intermediate and weak jets ( $\unicode[STIX]{x1D701}<0.1$ ) depend only on $\unicode[STIX]{x1D701}$ , not on the jet driver (i.e. gravity or boundaries). In the same regime, the jet parameters are found to be well approximated by power laws of $\unicode[STIX]{x1D701}$ , which we explain through analytical arguments.

Subfields: Computational Mechanics, Materials Chemistry, Mechanics of Materials

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Ice breaking by a collapsing bubble (2018, background): “…and inside, is known for its dynamic properties, such as focusing mechanical energy to a collapsing centre and producing jets, shock waves and even light (Brujan et al. 2001; Didenko & Suslick 2002; Lindau & Lauterborn 2003; Flannigan & Suslick 2005; Shaw & Spelt 2010; Supponen et al. 2016, etc.).”
Shock waves from non-spherical cavitation bubbles (2017, methodology): “The bubbles here are found to emit a single shock front at anisotropies up to ζ ≈ 10−3 (equivalent to γ ≈ 14), which is also the approximate limit for the appearance of a micro-jet piercing the bubble in our setup [31].”