Uniform Acoustic Cavitation of Liquid in a Disk

A dynamical propagation model coupled to the oscillation of cavitation bubbles is applied to describe the imploding acoustic field in a cavitating liquid where the acoustic waves transmit from the outside to the inside of a circle disk. Numerical simulation shows that the imploding ability of a ring source can elevate the sound pressure or partly eliminate the decay due to both the bulk attenuation and the attenuation caused by cavitation. However, the imploding ability is limited and there exists a critical radius. When the radius of the disk is larger than the critical one, the imploding ability is not enough to eliminate the attenuation. Fortunately, the cavitation region can be effectively expanded if a hot plate is attached under the center of the disk because the cavitation threshold is related to the temperature of the liquid, which means that a region with good uniformity of cavitation can be enhanced by adjusting the temperature difference between the central and side liquid.