The effects of ambient acceleration on bubble levitation and single bubble sonoluminescence
Sponsored by NASA

Sean Wyatt, Glynn Holt & Ron Roy
Dept. of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering,
Boston University


Special thanks to:  Phil Marston's group at WSU,
and Tom Matula's group at APL/UW for sending KC-135 flight data

Project Goals:

  • Investigate the effects of gravity (or any acceleration) on sonoluminescence


  • Perform low-gravity experiments to determine bubble dynamics and SL with zero buoyancy


  • Model acoustically levitated bubble dynamics and SL  in time-varying acceleration fields

| Acoustics in Bubbly Media | Acoustic Time Reversal | Structural Acoustics | Focused Ultrasound | Lithotripsy |  Nonlinear Wave Propagation | Rheology of Foam | Sonoluminescence in Space |