TY - JOUR
T1 - Time-dependent cavitation in a viscous fluid
AU - Shneidman, Vitaly A.
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PY - 2016/12/1
Y1 - 2016/12/1
N2 - Kinetics of nucleation and growth of empty bubbles in a nonvolatile incompressible fluid under negative pressure is considered within the generalized Zeldovich framework. The transient matched asymptotic solution obtained earlier for predominantly viscous nucleation is used to evaluate the distribution of growing cavities over sizes. Inertial effects described by the Rayleigh-Plesset equation are further included. The distributions are used to estimate the volume occupied by cavities, which leads to increase of pressure and eventual self-quenching of nucleation. Numerical solutions are obtained and compared with analytics. Due to rapid expansion of cavities the conventional separation of the nucleation and the growth time scales can be less distinct, which increases the role of transient effects. In particular, in the case of dominant viscosity a typical power-law tail of the quasistationary distribution is replaced by a time-dependent exponential tail. For fluids of the glycerin type such distributions can extend into the micrometer region, while in low-viscosity liquids (water, mercury) exponential distributions are short lived and are restricted to nanometer scales due to inertial effects.
AB - Kinetics of nucleation and growth of empty bubbles in a nonvolatile incompressible fluid under negative pressure is considered within the generalized Zeldovich framework. The transient matched asymptotic solution obtained earlier for predominantly viscous nucleation is used to evaluate the distribution of growing cavities over sizes. Inertial effects described by the Rayleigh-Plesset equation are further included. The distributions are used to estimate the volume occupied by cavities, which leads to increase of pressure and eventual self-quenching of nucleation. Numerical solutions are obtained and compared with analytics. Due to rapid expansion of cavities the conventional separation of the nucleation and the growth time scales can be less distinct, which increases the role of transient effects. In particular, in the case of dominant viscosity a typical power-law tail of the quasistationary distribution is replaced by a time-dependent exponential tail. For fluids of the glycerin type such distributions can extend into the micrometer region, while in low-viscosity liquids (water, mercury) exponential distributions are short lived and are restricted to nanometer scales due to inertial effects.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevE.94.062101
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevE.94.062101
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85001945950
SN - 1063-651X
VL - 94
JO - Physical Review E - Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics
JF - Physical Review E - Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics
IS - 6
M1 - 062101
ER -