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Heat Transfer Research

ISSN for PRINT: 1064-2285

Institutional price:	$2485.00
Issues per year:	8

Best Paper Award Selection - Editorial Board Site

2005, Volume36

153 pages

DOI: 10.1615/HeatTransRes.v36.i12

Issue price - $674.00

Nano-Effects in Cavitation Processes II. Criterion of Destruction of Cavitation Bubbles

G. K. Ivanitskii
Institute of Technical Thermophysics, National Academy of Sciences of the Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine

ABSTRACT

Numerical modeling of the vapor bubble dynamics in cavitation phenomena has been performed. The origin of thermal instability of a spherical bubble surface, which causes the irreversible breakup of the bubble, is considered. The bubble is expected to collapse if the bubble wall temperature exceeds the critical temperature. Comparison of theoretical and experimental data on the bubble behavior in hydrodynamic, acoustic, and vapor cavitation processes confirms the validity of this hypothesis.