We investigated the large-scale (10–1000m) and small-scale (mm–cm) variations in size, number and arrangement of air bubbles in the EPICA Dronning Maud Land (EDML) (Antarctica) ice core, down to the end of the bubble/hydrate transition (BHT) zone. On the large scale, the bubble number density shows a general correlation with the palaeo-temperature proxy, dO, and the dust concentration, which me...

1. A heavy ingestion of frothy emulsified fat by rats and bullfrogs does not increase susceptibility to bubble formation when the animals are decompressed 2 to 72 hours later. This indicates that gaseous films (bubble nuclei) initially present do not pass across the intestinal wall with the digested fat, and also that high fat content per se in the lymph and blood does not increase susceptibili...

Hydroquinone was found to suppress bubble formation at the outlet electrode of a sheathless capillary electrophoresis/electrospray ionization-mass spectrometer by replacing the oxidation of water (2H2O(1)<-->O2(g) + 4H+ + 4e) with that of more easily oxidized hydroquinone (hydroquinone<-->p-benzoquinone + 2H+ + 2e). Formation of p-benzoquinone replaces the formation of oxygen gas, effectively s...

Factors affecting bubble formation during delivery of defibrillator pulses to arrhythmogenic cardiac tissue via a catheter are unknown. We investigated the role of energy, electrode surface area, interelectrode distance, and electrode polarity on bubble formation and on current and voltage waveforms during delivery of damped sinusoidal discharges from a standard defibrillator to anticoagulated ...

The production of strings (disclination lines and loops) has been observed by means of the Kibble mechanism of domain (bubble) formation in the isotropic-nematic phase transition of the uniaxial nematic liquid crystal 4-cyano-4'-n-pentylbiphenyl. The number of strings formed per bubble is about 0.6. This value is in reasonable agreement with a numerical simulation of the experiment in which the...

Cleaning and erosion of objects by ultrasound in liquids are caused by the action of acoustic cavitation bubbles. Experiments have been performed with respect to the erosive effect of multibubble structures on painted glass surfaces and on aluminium foils in an ultrasonic standing wave field at 40 kHz. High-speed imaging techniques have been employed to investigate the mechanisms at work, in pa...

The dynamic interaction of a shockwave (modelled as a pressure pulse) with an initially spherically oscillating bubble is investigated. Upon the shockwave impact, the bubble deforms non-spherically and the flow field surrounding the bubble is determined with potential flow theory using the boundary-element method (BEM). The primary advantage of this method is its computational efficiency. The s...

Using molecular dynamics, we study the nucleation and stability of bulk nanobubble clusters. We study the formation, growth, and final size of bulk nanobubbles. We find that, as long as the bubble-bubble interspacing is small enough, bulk nanobubbles are stable against dissolution. Simple diffusion calculations provide an excellent match with the simulation results, giving insight into the reas...

∇·u=0 Here is the temperature, u=(u1; u2) is the velocity, p is the pressure. In Reference [1], Pumir and Siggia observed that the cap of a symmetric rising bubble collapses in a nite time. In contrast, E and Shu [2] reported that the motion of the bubble cap is a very unlikely candidate for nite time singularity formation. In this paper, we prove the global regularity for the viscous Boussines...