138th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America


Session 5aPAb5. Physical Acoustics: Sonoluminescence, Bubbles and Drops



5aPAb5. Measurement of the complex impedance of a bubbly fluid in the vicinity of the bubble resonance frequency.

The acoustic impedance of bubbly fluids has been investigated and results for mixtures above and below resonance are common in the literature. [e.g., A. B. Wood, A Textbook of Sound, Bell, London (1944)] Because of the high attenuation encountered at frequencies near individual bubble resonance, traditional standing wave and pulse propagation methods fail and little information has appeared in the literature for this regime. A new technique was developed to overcome this difficulty. Laboratory measurements of the complex plane-wave impedance of mixtures containing monodispersed air bubbles and water have been obtained for frequencies spanning the individual bubble resonance frequency. The experiments were conducted in a thick-walled water filled tube, piston driven at one end and terminated with a bubbly fluid at the other end. This arrangement allows for operation near the bubble resonance frequency, since high-attenuation is not encountered inside the waveguide itself. In addition, the standard transfer function method [J. Y. Chung and D. A. Blaser, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 68, 907-921 (1980)] can be utilized, which results in broadband complex-valued impedance measurements. Results over a range of frequencies and void-fractions with known size distributions will be presented and compared to existing theory. [Work supported by ONR]


Preston S. Wilson, Ronald A. Roy and William M. Carey

Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Boston University, Boston MA 02215


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Table of Contents

Title Slide

Motivation for Work

Improved Experimental Approach

Difficulties Adapting Technique for Use with Water Filled Tube

Measured Phase Speed Inside BU Impedance Tube

Radial Dependence of Wave Field in BU Impedance Tube

Plane Wave Theory Can Predict Resonances, but Source Must Be Considered

With Knowledge of Absolute Piston Velocity, Plane Wave Theory Can Predict Modal Shape and Amplitude

Effect of Wall Mounted Hyrdophones on Field

Preliminary Ground Truth Measurements

Initial Measurements on Xanthan Gel

Summary / Continued Efforts

Impedance Tube Facility

Transfer Function Method of Acoustic Properties Measurement

Xanthan Gel Recipe

References

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