Dynamics of collapse of free-surface bubbles: effects of gravity and viscosity

2023/04/05 by Sangeeth Krishnan, Krishnan, Sangeeth, Baburaj A. Puthenveettil +3
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Engineering · #Coastal and Marine Dynamics #FOS: Physical sciences #Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn) #Fluid Dynamics Simulations and Interactions #Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2304.02460

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Abstract

The rupture of the thin film at the top of a bubble floating at a liquid-gas interface leads to the axisymmetric collapse of the bubble cavity. We present scaling laws for such a cavity collapse, established from experiments conducted with bubbles spanning a wide range of Bond (10^-3

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