69th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics (November 20, 2016 — November 22, 2016)

V0017: High Speed Shadowgraph Imaging of a Thermocavitation Bubble Induced by CW Laser

Authors

• Seyed Mahdi Akbarimoosavi, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Riverside
• Darren Banks, Department of Mechanical Engineering, California State University, Fullerton
• Guillermo Aguilar , Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Riverside

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/APS.DFD.2016.GFM.V0017

In this video the formation of the thermal boundary layer, growth and collision of the bubble induced by a CW laser is presented. The shadowgraph imaging gives us a lot of information about the cavitation process and the provided mixing when the bubble collapses.