Testing Machines

1. Cavitation confinement

Ed Zwaan¹, Séverine Le Gac², Kinko Tsuji³ and Claus-Dieter Ohl¹

¹ Physics of Fluids, University of Twente, The Netherlands
² BIOS the lab-on-chip group, University of Twente, The Netherlands
³ Shimadzu Europa GmbH, Duisburg, Germany

Reference article with these authors : PRL 98, 254501 (2007)

Vapourous cavitation bubbles are generated in PDMS-based Microsystems filled with a light-absorbing liquid using a pulsed Nd:Yag laser. The processes of formation and collapse of a micro bubble are recorded with HPV-2 with 1,000,000 frames/s.