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Vapor Bubbles

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Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics 49, 221–248 (2017)

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@article{doi:10.1146/annurev-fluid-010816-060221,
author = {Andrea Prosperetti},
title = {Vapor Bubbles},
journal = {Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics},
volume = {49},
number = {1},
pages = {221-248},
year = {2017},
doi = {10.1146/annurev-fluid-010816-060221},

URL = { 
        http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-fluid-010816-060221
    
},
eprint = { 
        http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-fluid-010816-060221
    
}
,
    abstract = { This article reviews the fundamental physics of vapor bubbles in liquids. Work on bubble growth and condensation for stationary and translating bubbles is summarized and the differences with bubbles containing a permanent gas stressed. In particular, it is shown that the natural frequency of a vapor bubble is proportional not to the inverse radius, as for a gas bubble, but to the inverse radius raised to the power 2/3. Permanent gas dissolved in the liquid diffuses into the bubble with strong effects on its dynamics. The effects of the diffusion of heat and mass on the propagation of pressure waves in a vaporous bubbly liquid are discussed. Other topics briefly touched on include thermocapillary flow, plasmonic nanobubbles, and vapor bubbles in an immiscible liquid. }
}