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EPJ Web of Conferences
Volume 59, 2013
IFSA 2011 – Seventh International Conference on Inertial Fusion Sciences and Applications
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| Article Number | 19003 | |
| Number of page(s) | 5 | |
| Section | XIX. Other Applications (Including Bio-med Applications) | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20135919003 | |
| Published online | 15 November 2013 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20135919003
Shockwave and cavitation bubble dynamics of atmospheric air
1 Advanced Center of Research in High Energy Materials (ACRHEM), University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, A.P. 500046, India
2 Currently at Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology, Indore, M.P. 452013, India
Published online: 15 November 2013
The generation and evolution of laser induced shock waves (SWs) and the hot core plasma (HCP) created by focusing 7 ns, 532 nm laser pulses in ambient air is studied using time resolved shadowgraphic imaging technique. The dynamics of rapidly expanding plasma releasing SWs into the ambient atmosphere were studied for time delays ranging from nanoseconds to milliseconds with ns temporal resolution. The SW is observed to get detached from expanding HCP at around 3μs. Though the SWs were found to expand spherically following the Sedov-Taylor theory, the rapidly expanding HCP shows asymmetric expansion during both the expansion and cooling phase similar to that of inertial cavitation bubble (CB) dynamics. The asymmetric expansion of HCP leads to oscillation of the plasma boundary, eventually leading to collapse by forming vortices formed by the interaction of ambient air.
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