Acoustically Induced Gas Bubble Growth

Hydrostatic pressure is known to protect fish from damage by total dissolved gas (TDG) supersaturation, but empirical relationships are lacking. In this study we demonstrate the relationship between depth, TDG, and gas bubble trauma (GBT). Hydroelectric dams generate TDG supersaturation that causes bubble growth in the tissues of aquatic animals, resulting in sublethal and lethal effects. We exposed fish to 100%, 115%, 120%, and 130% TDG at 16 and 63 cm of depth and recorded time to 50% loss of equilibrium and sublethal symptoms. Our linear model of the log-transformed time to 50% LOE (R2 = 0.94) was improved by including depth. Based on our model, a depth of 47 cm compensated for the effects of 4.1% (±1.3% SE) TDG supersaturation. Our experiment reveals that once the surface threshold for GBT from TDG supersaturation is known, depth protects rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) from GBT by 9.7% TDG supersaturation per metre depth. Our results can be used to estimate the impacts of TDG on fish downstream of dams and to develop improved guidelines for TDG.

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Loop-Punching as a Mechanism for Inert Gas Bubble Growth in Ion-Implanted Metals

Fundamental Aspects of Inert Gases in Solids - NATO ASI Series ◽

10.1007/978-1-4899-3680-6_32 ◽

1991 ◽

pp. 357-367 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

S. E. Donnelly ◽

D. R. G. Mitchell ◽

A. van Veen

Keyword(s):

Bubble Growth ◽

Inert Gas ◽

Gas Bubble ◽

Ion Implanted

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Nuclei and Cavitation

Journal of Basic Engineering ◽

10.1115/1.3425105 ◽

1970 ◽

Vol 92 (4) ◽

pp. 681-688 ◽

Cited By ~ 50

Author(s):

J. William Holl

Keyword(s):

Bubble Growth ◽

Scale Effects ◽

Gas Bubbles ◽

Gas Content ◽

Gas Bubble ◽

Cavitation Nuclei ◽

The Stability

This paper is a review of existing knowledge on cavitation nuclei. The lack of significant tensions in ordinary liquids is due to so-called weak spots or cavitation nuclei. The various forms which have been proposed for nuclei are gas bubbles, gas in a crevice, gas bubble with organic skin, and a hydrophobic solid. The stability argument leading to the postulation of the Harvey model is reviewed. Aspects of bubble growth are considered and it is shown that bubbles having different initial sizes will undergo vaporous cavitation at different liquid tensions. The three modes of growth, namely vaporous, pseudo, and gaseous are presented and implications concerning the interpretation of data are considered. The question of the source of nuclei and implications concerning scale effects are made. The measurement of nuclei is considered together with experiments on the effect of gas content on incipient cavitation.

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Phase-field modeling of fission gas bubble growth on grain boundaries and triple junctions in UO2 nuclear fuel

Computational Materials Science ◽

10.1016/j.commatsci.2019.01.019 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 161 ◽

pp. 35-45 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Larry K. Aagesen ◽

Daniel Schwen ◽

Michael R. Tonks ◽

Yongfeng Zhang

Keyword(s):

Grain Boundaries ◽

Nuclear Fuel ◽

Phase Field ◽

Bubble Growth ◽

Gas Bubble ◽

Triple Junctions ◽

Phase Field Modeling ◽

Field Modeling ◽

Fission Gas

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A numerical model for diffusion driven gas bubble growth in molten Sn-based solder

2014 Joint IEEE International Symposium on the Applications of Ferroelectric, International Workshop on Acoustic Transduction Materials and Devices & Workshop on Piezoresponse Force Microscopy ◽

10.1109/isaf.2014.6917937 ◽

2014 ◽

Author(s):

Anil Kunwar ◽

Haitao Ma ◽

Junhao Sun ◽

Lin Qu ◽

Shuang Li ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Numerical Model ◽

Bubble Growth ◽

Gas Bubble

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Investigation of gas bubble growth in fused silica crucibles for silicon Czochralski crystal growth

Journal of Crystal Growth ◽

10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2019.125470 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 533 ◽

pp. 125470

Author(s):

Antje Hirsch ◽

Matthias Trempa ◽

Iven Kupka ◽

Lea Schmidtner ◽

Christian Kranert ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Crystal Growth ◽

Bubble Growth ◽

Fused Silica ◽

Gas Bubble ◽

Czochralski Crystal Growth

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Gas depletion through single gas bubble diffusive growth and its effect on subsequent bubbles

Journal of Fluid Mechanics ◽

10.1017/jfm.2017.623 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 831 ◽

pp. 474-490 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Álvaro Moreno Soto ◽

Andrea Prosperetti ◽

Detlef Lohse ◽

Devaraj van der Meer

Keyword(s):

Bubble Growth ◽

Quantitative Data ◽

Liquid Solution ◽

Nucleation Site ◽

Simplified Model ◽

Gas Bubble ◽

Dissolved Gas ◽

Bubble Detachment ◽

Diffusive Growth ◽

Pure Diffusion

When a gas bubble grows by diffusion in a gas–liquid solution, it affects the distribution of gas in its surroundings. If the density of the solution is sensitive to the local amount of dissolved gas, there is the potential for the onset of natural convection, which will affect the bubble growth rate. The experimental study of the successive quasi-static growth of many bubbles from the same nucleation site described in this paper illustrates some consequences of this effect. The enhanced growth due to convection causes a local depletion of dissolved gas in the neighbourhood of each bubble beyond that due to pure diffusion. The quantitative data of sequential bubble growth provided in the paper show that the radius-versus-time curves of subsequent bubbles differ from each other due to this phenomenon. A simplified model accounting for the local depletion is able to collapse the experimental curves and to predict the progressively increasing bubble detachment times.

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