Our earlier paper has identified a wave of Type 1 that is the pressure wave generated in the liquid-filled glass tube through the tube-arrest method by pulling and arresting the tube,when cavitation is prohibited. If cavitation is produced,a wave of Type 2 generally appears. The present paper takes the transition between wave types as indication of cavitation onset,and looks for a liquid parameter which controls the onset. One such an attempt shows the concentration of a dissolved gas in the liquid is the controlling factor with the result that the threshold of cavitation onset decreases with the increase of the concentration. Then a specially designed experiment reveals that possibly the mobility of the gas molecules (and also that of the liquid molecules) transiently affects the threshold so as to induce a large rise and fall in time of hours. The threshold finally settles down to some stable value under atmospheric pressure.
YING ChongFu & LI Chao Institute of Acoustics,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100190,China
We have been using the method of tube-arrest as a means of producing transient single cavitation bubble. In the present paper we seek to comprehend the mechanism of production and inquire into the structure of the ab initio pressure field in the arrested liquid column. The generated pressure wave is shown by combining the theoretical analysis with the experimental observation to be a slightly varied version of water hammer. With relatively clean liquid, the magnitude of the tension peak generating the TSB is likely to reach of several millions Pa. It is also shown that the so generated cavitation bubble originating from the gas-containing bulk liquid is in ‘violent’ motion.
