Engineering Applications for Impulsive Multiphase Fluid Phenomena

Cavitation can be beneficial in a wide range of engineering applications including material science, cleaning technologies, food processing, among others. We develop:

  • new ways to control cavitation nucleation and dynamics for a range of applications (e.g. sonophoresis, onset of ultrasonic horn cavitation)
  • optical and acoustical methods as non-invasive techniques to generate flows
  • optical and acoustical techniques for cavitation detection
  • bubble-based methods for material characterisation
Cavitation bubble clouds induced by an ultrasonic sonicator in a viscous fluid and in water.
Cavitation bubble clouds induced by an ultrasonic sonicator in a viscous fluid and in water.
Dynamics of a spark-induced cylindrical cavitation bubble between two plates.
Dynamics of a spark-induced cylindrical cavitation bubble between two plates.   
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