The influence of air content in water on ultrasonic cavitation field

Liyan Liu1, Yang Yang, Penghong Liu

  • 1School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China.

Ultrasonics Sonochemistry
|November 16, 2013
PubMed

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