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Yurii A Ilinskii

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Gas bubble and solid sphere motion in elastic media in response to acoustic radiation force.

The general approach to estimate the displacement of rounded objects (specifically, gas bubbles and solid spheres) in elastic incompressible media in response to applied acoustic radiation force is presented. In this study, both static displacement and transient motion are analyzed using the linear approximation. To evaluate the static displacement of the spherical inclusion, equations coupling the applied force, displacement, and shear modulus of the elastic medium are derived. Analytical expressions to estimate the static displacement of solid spheres and gas bubbles are presented. Under a continuously applied static force, both the solid sphere and the initially spherical gas bubble are displaced, and the bubble is deformed. The transient responses of the inclusions are described using motion equations. The displacements of the inclusion in elastic incompressible lossless media are analyzed using both frequency-domain and time-domain formalism, and the equations of motion are derived for both a solid sphere and a gas bubble. For a short pulsed force, an analytical solution for the equations of motion is presented. Finally, transient displacement of the gas bubble in viscoelastic media is considered.

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Modifications of the equation for gas bubble dynamics in a soft elastic medium.

A model equation for the oscillation of a pressurized gas bubble in a nonlinear incompressible elastic medium [Emelianov et al., J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 115, 581 (2004)] is extended to include effects of surface tension, viscosity, weak compressibility, and confinement by an elastic shell. The significance of this work is that starting from first principles, the full nonlinearity of the incompressible elastic medium surrounding the bubble and forming its shell is taken into account. Measurements of equilibrium radius as a function of external pressure for a gas bubble in a tissue-like gel are also presented. A general approach to including hysteresis is also discussed.

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Nonlinear dynamics of a gas bubble in an incompressible elastic medium.

A nonlinear model in the form of the Rayleigh-Plesset equation is developed for a gas bubble in an essentially incompressible elastic medium such as a tissue or rubberlike medium. Two constitutive laws for the elastic medium are considered: the Mooney potential, and Landau's expansion of the strain energy density. These two constitutive laws are compared at quadratic order to obtain a relation between their respective elastic constants. Attention is devoted to the relative importance of shear stress on the bubble dynamics, allowing for the equilibrium gas pressure in the bubble to differ substantially from the pressure at infinity. The model for the bubble motion is approximated to quadratic order to assess the importance of shear stress in the surrounding medium relative to that of the gas pressure in the bubble. Relations are derived for the value of the shear wave speed at which the two contributions are comparable, which provide an assessment of when shear stress in the surrounding medium must be taken into account when modeling bubble dynamics.

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Acoustic streaming generated by standing waves in two-dimensional channels of arbitrary width.

An analytic solution is derived for acoustic streaming generated by a standing wave in a viscous fluid that occupies a two-dimensional channel of arbitrary width. The main restriction is that the boundary layer thickness is a small fraction of the acoustic wavelength. Both the outer, Rayleigh streaming vortices and the inner, boundary layer vortices are accurately described. For wide channels and outside the boundary layer, the solution is in agreement with results obtained by others for Rayleigh streaming. As channel width is reduced, the inner vortices increase in size relative to the Rayleigh vortices. For channel widths less than about 10 times the boundary layer thickness, the Rayleigh vortices disappear and only the inner vortices exist. The obtained solution is compared with those derived by Rayleigh, Westervelt, Nyborg, and Zarembo.

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Thermal effects on acoustic streaming in standing waves.

Acoustic streaming generated by standing waves in channels of arbitrary width is investigated analytically. In a previous paper by the authors [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 113, 153-160 (2003)], a purely viscous fluid in a two-dimensional channel was considered. That analysis is extended here to a gas in which heat conduction and dependence of the viscosity on temperature are taken into account. Calculations are presented for typical working gases used in thermoacoustic engines at standard temperature and pressure. In channels that are very wide in comparison with the viscous penetration depth, which is the Rayleigh streaming regime, the influence of the two thermal effects is comparable but small. The same is true in very narrow channels, having widths on the order of the viscous penetration depth. In channels having intermediate widths, 10-20 times the viscous penetration depth, the effect of heat conduction can be substantial. The analysis is performed for cylindrical tubes as well as two-dimensional channels, and the results are found to be qualitatively the same.

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Nonlinear two-dimensional model for thermoacoustic engines.

A two-dimensional model and efficient solution algorithm are developed for studying nonlinear effects in thermoacoustic engines. There is no restriction on the length or location of the stack, and the cross-sectional area of the resonator may vary with position along its axis. Reduced model equations are obtained by ordering spatial derivatives in terms of rapid variations across the pores in the stack, versus slow variations along the resonator axis. High efficiency is achieved with the solution algorithm because the stability condition for numerical integration of the model equations is connected with resonator length rather than pore diameter. Computation time is reduced accordingly, by several orders of magnitude, without sacrificing spatial resolution. The solution algorithm is described in detail, and the results are verified by comparison with established linear theory. Two examples of nonlinear effects are investigated briefly, the onset of instability through to saturation and steady state, and nonlinear waveform distortion as a function of resonator shape.

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