Jetting enhancement from wall-proximal cavitation bubbles by a distant wall

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Zeng, Qingyun
Zhang, A-Man
Tan, Beng Hau
An, Hongjie
Ohl, Claus-Dieter
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2024
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An additional distant wall is known to highly alter the jetting scenarios of wall-proximal bubbles. Here, we combine high-speed photography and axisymmetric volume of fluid (VoF) simulations to quantitatively describe its role in enhancing the micro-jet dynamics within the directed jet regime (Zeng et al., J. Fluid Mech., vol. 896, 2020, A28). Upon a favourable agreement on the bubble and micro-jet dynamics, both experimental and simulation results indicate that the micro-jet velocity increases dramatically as η decreases, where η=H/Rmax is the distance between two walls H normalized by the maximum bubble radius Rmax. The mechanism is related to the collapsing flow, which is constrained by the distant wall into a reverse stagnation-point flow that builds up pressure near the bubble's top surface and accelerates it into micro-jets. We further derive an equation expressing the micro-jet velocity Ujet=87.94γ0.5(1+(1/3)(η−λ1.2)−2), where γ=d/Rmax is the stand-off distance to the proximal wall with d the distance between the initial bubble centre and the wall, λ=Ry,m/Rmax with Ry,m the distance between the top surface and the proximal wall at the bubble's maximum expansion. Viscosity has a minimal impact on the jet velocity for small γ, where the pressure buildup is predominantly influenced by geometry.

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics

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987

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© The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution and reproduction, provided the original article is properly cited.

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Fundamental and theoretical fluid dynamics

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Zeng, Q; Zhang, A-M; Tan, BH; An, H; Ohl, C-D, Jetting enhancement from wall-proximal cavitation bubbles by a distant wall, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2024, 987

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