Direct numerical simulation of bubble-cluster's dynamic characteristics

A Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) for understanding the dynamic response of bubble cluster to pulses of pressure perturbations has been studied by using a front-tracking method. The results show that owing to high nonlinearity, the bubble shape and volume oscillations caused by passing by pressure wave will be transformed into an in-phase volumetric oscillation of whole bubble cluster at a particular low-frequency. The value of the frequency is independent of the pulse excitations but the characteristics of the bubble cluster such as its bubble size, bulk void fraction and its spacial distribution etc. It is believed that this study provides important information for us to understand the coupling mechanism of cavitation cloud involved in cavitation resonance, a phenomenon noticed by one of the authors more than two decades ago