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Compressible effect on the mutual interaction of two cavitation bubbles in radial oscillations and translational
Hancheng Wang1, Junjie Jiao1, Xuchao Pan1
1Mechanical Engineering College of Nanjing University of Science and Technology, National Defense Laboratories of ZNDY, Jiangsu, China.
Abstract:
In this study, we considered the compressible effect on the mutual interaction of two cavitation bubbles by correcting the sound field emitted by one bubble in the radial equations of the other bubble to first order in the Mach number of the flow, and the effect is represented by the incident wave acting on bubbles. The results illustrates that the incident wave can enhance the resonance response at the redistributed resonance frequency, which leads to an increase in radial acceleration and the secondary Bjerknes force, and rapid approach of bubbles. Furthermore, the influence of incident wave on the interaction of bubbles driven at lower frequencies is more significant, due to resonance enhancement caused by the proximity of natural frequencies and frequency multiplications of the external sound field. Our findings reveal that the compressible effect is not only critical to interaction in radial oscillations, but also in translational motion.
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