Article
Cavitation in Soft Matter (en)
* Presenting author
Abstract:
Professor Lauterborn excelled the technique of optic cavitation to study the highly nonlinear dynamics of cavitation in liquids. He found large differences between water and oil. Single cavitation bubbles in non-Newtonian elastic liquids such as polymer solutions, strong effects on the jet formation and strength of collapse, were revealed in his lab more than 30 years ago. Research on medical relevant boundaries between liquids and solids budded of from Prof. Lauterborn through Prof. Alfred Vogel. There the bubble was mostly generated in the liquid, yet interacted with the elastic boundary. In this presentation, I want to report on the response of an elastic solid to the oscillation of single laser induced cavitation bubbles within. I will provide some overview on this topic, first results, and discus its relevance for thermal ablation and traumatic brain injuries.