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Bubble puzzles: From fundamentals to applications

Detlef Lohse
Phys. Rev. Fluids 3, 110504 – Published 21 November 2018
An article within the collection: 2018 Invited Papers

Abstract

For centuries, bubbles have fascinated artists, engineers, and scientists alike. In spite of century-long research on them, new and often surprising bubble phenomena, features, and applications keep popping up. In this paper I sketch my personal scientific bubble journey, starting with single-bubble sonoluminescence, continuing with sound emission and scattering of bubbles, cavitation, snapping shrimp, impact events, air entrainment, and surface micro- and nanobubbles, and finally arriving at effective force models for bubbles and dispersed bubbly two-phase flow. In particular, I also cover various applications of bubbles, namely, in ultrasound diagnostics, drug and gene delivery, piezoacoustic inkjet printing, immersion lithography, sonochemistry, electrolysis, catalysis, acoustic marine geophysical survey, and bubble drag reduction for naval vessels, and show how these applications crossed my way. I also try to show that good and interesting fundamental science and relevant applications are not a contradiction, but mutually stimulate each other in both directions.

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  • Received 19 July 2018

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.3.110504

©2018 American Physical Society

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  1. Physical Systems
Fluid Dynamics

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2018 Invited Papers

Physical Review Fluids publishes a collection of papers associated with the invited talks presented at the 70th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics.

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Detlef Lohse

  • Physics of Fluids Group, Max-Planck Center for Complex Fluid Dynamics, MESA+ Research Institute, and J.M. Burgers Centre for Fluid Dynamics, Department of Science & Technology, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, Netherlands and Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Am Fassberg 17, 37077 Göttingen, Germany

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Vol. 3, Iss. 11 — November 2018

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