Abstract :
ThispaperpresentsthespecificfeaturesofviolentvaporcavitationbubbleimplosioninducedbyanenergeticacousticstandingwaveintheOakRidgeNationalLaboratory(ORNL)experimentsperformedusingdeuteratedacetone[Taleyarkhan,R.P.,West,C.D.,Cho,J.S.,LaheyJr.,R.T.,Nigmatulin,R.I.,Block,R.C.,2002.Evidencefornuclearemissionsduringacousticcavitation.Science295,1868;Taleyarkhan,R.P.,West,C.D.,Cho,J.S.,LaheyJr.,R.T.,Nigmatulin,R.I.,Block,R.C.,2004.Additionalevidenceofnuclearemissionsduringacousticcavitation.Phys.Rev.E69,036109].Adetaileddescriptionandanalysisofthesedata,includingaresolutionofthecriticismsthathavebeenraised,hasbeengivenbyandLaheyetal.[LaheyJr.,R.T.,Taleyarkhan,R.P.,Nigmatulin,R.I.,Akhatov,I.S.Sonoluminescenceandthesearchforsonofusion.In:AdvancesinHeatTransfer,vol.39.AcademicPress,inpress].
