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- From: crb7q@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Cameron Randale Bass)
- Subject: Re: Was sononluminescence _already_ solved, or not?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.074948.27304@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Keywords: Casimir Effect
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- References: <1993Jan5.225833.29067@asl.dl.nec.com> <1993Jan6.063633.15257@athena.mit.edu>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 07:49:48 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan6.063633.15257@athena.mit.edu> redingtn@athena.mit.edu (Norman H Redington) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan5.225833.29067@asl.dl.nec.com>, terry@asl.dl.nec.|>
- >|> So again, has sonoluminiscence _already_ been solved, or not?
- >|>
- >|>
- >|> Cheers,
- >|> Terry Bollinger
- >
- >Doesn't Julian Schwinger say it's the dynamical analogue of the
- >Casimir effect?
-
- Just curious. What meaning is assigned to 'the dynamical analogue
- of the Casimir effect'? I don't really see any place for the
- Casimir effect or an analogue in the process. This isn't exactly
- a subtle indication of zero-point energy. Are you sure it
- wasn't a joke?
-
- As far as Terry's post that I apparently did not reach this site, no it
- has not exactly been solved in detail to my knowledge, however there
- are recent strong experimental and theoretical indications as to the
- mechanism for the so-called 'stable cavitation'. The mechanism is a
- strong shock being shed into the vapour bubble after
- the bubble begins contracting. About seven other possible mechanisms
- of various stripes are mentioned in Young's book on cavitation
- (appropriately entitled 'Cavitation'), a good book I'd recommend
- to anyone interested in cavitation.
-
- I was curious, so I looked at UNC (they apparently received Terry's
- post) and the full question involved the timing of the flashes.
- Barber and Putterman's, in their 28 December PRL article,
- (again PRL: 69:3839 (1992)) measure the bubble radius of 'stable
- cavitation' against time and sonoluminescence. They
- find that the the SL is 'clearly emitted at or near the moment
- of collapse' (Figure 1).
-
- Detailed measurements indicate that a roughly 40 microsecond
- period bubble sonoluminesces roughly 4 microseconds after reaching
- maximum radius (and the bubble surface velocity reaches Mach 1 about 10
- nanoseconds before reaching its minimum radius, Figures 3 and 4).
- This would seem to indicate that the shock 'slow(s) down the collapse
- of the bubble' and that it is, in fact, a shock. I have seen a
- very recent preprint that theoretically describes the first stages
- of this shock shedding process.
-
- dale bass
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