Experiments and numerical analysis of rebounding behaviors of a laser-induced cloud cavitation

Abstract

It is well known that a high-speed submerged water jet generates a cloud of cavitation bubbles experiencing a collective unsteady behavior that repeats growth and collapse. In particular, it is considered that a high-pressure shock wave may be emitted associated with the collapse of the cloud. However, its mechanism has not been enough clarified and hence it is required to be explored both from the experimental and numerical analyses. In this study, we fist make an observation of such a unsteady behavior of the cloud cavitation that is generated by a pulsed Ho:YAG laser-induced liquid jet using a high-speed video camera. Then, a two-dimensional numerical analysis based on the SPH method is examined to simulate the unsteady behavior of the cloud, in which the mixture model of liquids and gas bubbles is employed. Finally, the validity of our numerical analysis is illustrated by showing that the unsteady behavior of the cloud from its inception, growth, shrink, collapse to rebound is realized in qualitative agreement with the experimental data.