Ultrasound contrast agents composed of micro-bubble filled with gas are introduced to increase the backscattered power from blood. Their intravenously injection results in the improved contrast in the images. The aim of this master thesis project is to manufacture MB suspension at varied temperature and shear forces and to inspect the size distribution and concentration of the PVA-shelled micro...

Bubble generation is a ubiquitous and complex phenomenon occurring as a result of non-linear behavior of the free surfaces. Plunging breakers, spilling breakers and plunging jets are just a few scenarios where bubble generation occurs. Due to its complexity and our lack of complete understanding of this phenomenon, the models developed in the literature are far from being predictive (Moraga et ...

This paper presents the dynamics of microbubbles that are pinched-off and breakup in micro-jetting. A microjet is generated in two bubble interaction when a laser induced bubble is impacting a static gas bubble in a microchannel. Gas layers with a height of hundreds of nanometer are pinched off from the accelerated gas bubble wall during the jetting process. They are further modified by surface...

Since typical industrial-scale reactors may contain many millions of bubbles, the extension of direct free-surface modelling techniques to resolve every bubble in the vessel would require far more computational power than will be available. A more immediate solution is to couple macro-scale reactor models to micro-scale models of individual bubbles and collections of a small number of bubbles. ...

Recent developments concerning the unsteady dynamic forces on a spherical particle at finite Reynolds number are reviewed for solid particles and clean micro-bubble. A particle frequency response function and an energy transfer function are derived for a solid particle or a contaminated micro-bubble in gas or liquid flow. A simple, unified method for estimating the cut-off frequency, or cut-off...

A Fabry-Perot interferometer sensor based on a fiber-tip bubble-structure micro-cavity is proposed, fabricated, and demonstrated for transverse load sensing. The micro-cavity is fabricated by using arc discharge at the end of a multimode fiber which has been processed with chemical etching. A transverse load sensitivity of 3.64 nm/N and a relative low temperature sensitivity of about 2 pm/◦C ar...

Recent research progress in the area of nano/micro scale nucleate boiling is reviewed and an up-to-date summary is provided with a focus on the advances of fundamental boiling physics. This review examines nano/micro scale pool boiling experimental and theoretical/numerical work reported in the open literature. On the experimental side, the topics covered are moving contact line, critical heat ...

The production of gaseous micro emboli associated with bubble oxygenators during extracorporeal perfusion has prompted considerable attention regarding product design and arterial filtration needs. There are a variety of routes by which gas bubbles are introduced into the vasculature. As invasive diagnostics and extracorporeal perfusion are used more widely, likewise, the incidence of gas embol...