We modify a uniform model of single bubble sonoluminescence,in which heat diffusion,water vapor diffusion and chemical reactions are included to describe the bubble dynamics,and the processes of electron-atom bremsstrahlung,electron-ion bremsstrahlung and recombination radiation,radiative attachment of electrons to atoms and molecules,line emissions of OH radicals and Na atoms are taken into account to calculate the light emission. With this model,we compute the light pulse width,the photon number per flash,the continuum and line spectra and the gas species as the products of chemical reactions,and try to compare with all the experimental data available. We obtain good agreement with the observations of Ar and Xe bubbles in many cases,but fail to match the experimental data of the photon number per flash. We also find that for He bubble the computed photon number is always too small to interpret the observations.
LI ChaoHui1 & AN Yu1,2 1 Department of Physics,Tsinghua University,Beijing 100084,China
Using the equations of fluid mechanics with proper boundary conditions and taking account of the gas properties, we can numerically simulate the process of single bubble sonoluminescence, in which electron–neutral atom bremsstrahlung, electron–ion bremsstrahlung and recombination radiation, and the radiative attachment of electrons to atoms and molecules contribute to the light emission. The calculation can quantitatively or qualitatively interpret the experimental results. We find that the accumulated heat energy inside the compressed gas bubble is mostly consumed by the chemical reaction, therefore, the maximum degree of ionization inside Xe bubble in water is much lower than that in sulfuric acid, of which the vapour pressure is very low. In addition, in sulfuric acid much larger p a and R 0 are allowed which makes the bubbles in it much brighter than that in water.
