The role of gas in ultrasonically driven vapor bubble growth

Oleksandr Shpak1, Laura Stricker, Michel Versluis

  • 1Physics of Fluids Group, MIRA Institute of Biomedical Technology and Technical Medicine, University of Twente, PO Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands. o.shpak@utwente.nl

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