Memory effect and redistribution of cavitation nuclei in a thin liquid layer
Lixin Bai1, Weijun Lin1, Pengfei Wu1
1Institute of Acoustics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.
Abstract:
Temporal evolution and spatial distribution of acoustic cavitation structures in a thin liquid layer were investigated experimentally with high-speed photography. The inception and disappearance processes of cavitation bubble cloud revealed that the metastable cavitaton structures formed in the thin liquid layer caused a long-term "memory effect". A factor which weakens the memory effect was identified. The distribution of cavitation nuclei was investigated by changing the temporal decay of the memory effect.
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