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’Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house
No electrons were flowing through even my mouse.
All devices were plugged by the chimney with care
With the hope that St. Nikola Tesla would share.
Terry Mitchell, Frederick G. Hammitt
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 53 | Number 3 | March 1974 | Pages 263-276
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE74-A23352
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The effects upon spherically symmetric bubble collapse of the various thermodynamic parameters, including interfacial nonequilibrium boundary effects, are examined numerically for the case of cavitation or highly subcooled boiling bubbles. Pressures in the surrounding liquid as a function of time and distance are computed. It is shown that the value selected for the evaporation coefficient, not well known experimentally, has a very strong influence on collapse pressures and velocities. The thermal diffusivity of the bubble contents is also significant but somewhat less important. The effect of nonequilibrium temperature or pressure discontinuities at the interface was found negligible for the cases studied.