Bubble growth as a detonation

Bubble growth as a detonation.

In the case of spherically symmetric chemical burning, only very special hydrodynamical detonation solutions exist. These are the so called Jouguet detonations, in which the burning front moves at sound velocity with respect to the burnt matter. Usually it is believed that the situation is similar in the case of bubble growth in cosmological phase transitions. In this paper it is shown that act...

Convective Bubble Growth

Shake a bottle of champagne and pop it open. The champagne will shoot out in a mini-eruption. Do the same to a bottle of beer. Beer will ooze out more slowly. If a bottle of champagne or beer is opened without perturbation, there will be no eruption, but bubbles will rise and grow, often in regularly spaced “trains” (FIG. 1). In Guinness beer, bubbles rise more slowly and may even sink. The myr...

Air bubble growth in water.

Bubble growth in rhyolitic melt

We report experimental data of bubble growth in natural rhyolitic melt with 1.4^2.0 wt% initial total H2O at 0.1 MPa and 500^6003C. Growth of many bubbles is monitored in every experiment. Bubble growth rate increases with temperature and initial total H2O. At a given temperature and initial total H2O, bubble growth rate also increases slightly with bubble size. The average growth rate for bubb...

Air Bubble Growth in Water

To the Editor:—I read with considerable interest the article by Benavides et al. describing experiments of air bubble growth in water during exposure to 100% nitrous oxide, 100% xenon, or 50% xenon–50% oxygen. Although the experiments were nicely conducted, they explore a physics of gas flux in an unconstrained bubble permitted to grow spherically. Importantly, this geometry has limited biologi...