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The collapse of a cavitation bubble in shear flows—A numerical study

1995; American Institute of Physics; Volume: 7; Issue: 11 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1063/1.868709

1527-2435

Po-Wen Yu, Steven L. Ceccio, Grétar Tryggvason,

Fluid Dynamics Simulations and Interactions

The collapse of a cavitation bubble is examined by direct numerical simulations of the Navier–Stokes equations, using a finite difference/front tracking technique. Bubbles in both a quiescent fluid as well as shear flows are examined. For quiescent fluid, the results are compared with theoretical and previous computational results. For bubbles in a shear flow it is shown that large shear can increase the rate of collapse, and for bubbles near boundaries shear can eliminate the re-entrant jet seen for bubbles in a quiescent flow.