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Title: Negative pressures and spallation in water drops subjected to nanosecond shock waves

Abstract

Most experimental studies of cavitation in liquid water at negative pressures reported cavitation at tensions significantly smaller than those expected for homogeneous nucleation, suggesting that achievable tensions are limited by heterogeneous cavitation. We generated tension pulses with nanosecond rise times in water by reflecting cylindrical shock waves, produced by X-ray laser pulses, at the internal surface of drops of water. Depending on the X-ray pulse energy, a range of cavitation phenomena occurred, including the rupture and detachment, or spallation, of thin liquid layers at the surface of the drop. When spallation occurred, we evaluated that negative pressures below –100 MPa were reached in the drops. As a result, we model the negative pressures from shock reflection experiments using a nucleation-and-growth model that explains how rapid decompression could outrun heterogeneous cavitation in water, and enable the study of stretched water close to homogeneous cavitation pressures.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [1]
  1. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
  2. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen (Switzerland)
  3. Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ (United States)
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Research Org.:
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
OSTI Identifier:
1295510
Report Number(s):
SLAC-PUB-16782
Journal ID: ISSN 1948-7185
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-76SF00515
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 7; Journal Issue: 11; Journal ID: ISSN 1948-7185
Publisher:
American Chemical Society
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
38 RADIATION CHEMISTRY, RADIOCHEMISTRY, AND NUCLEAR CHEMISTRY; stretched water; cavitation; heterogeneous nucleation; dynamic decompression; X-ray lasers

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Stan, Claudiu A., Willmott, Philip R., Stone, Howard A., Koglin, Jason E., Liang, Mengning, Aquila, Andrew L., Robinson, Joseph S., Gumerlock, Karl L., Blaj, Gabriel, Sierra, Raymond G., Boutet, Sebastien, Guillet, Serge A. H., Curtis, Robin H., Vetter, Sharon L., Loos, Henrik, Turner, James L., and Decker, Franz -Josef. Negative pressures and spallation in water drops subjected to nanosecond shock waves. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.1021/acs.jpclett.6b00687.
Stan, Claudiu A., Willmott, Philip R., Stone, Howard A., Koglin, Jason E., Liang, Mengning, Aquila, Andrew L., Robinson, Joseph S., Gumerlock, Karl L., Blaj, Gabriel, Sierra, Raymond G., Boutet, Sebastien, Guillet, Serge A. H., Curtis, Robin H., Vetter, Sharon L., Loos, Henrik, Turner, James L., & Decker, Franz -Josef. Negative pressures and spallation in water drops subjected to nanosecond shock waves. United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.6b00687
Stan, Claudiu A., Willmott, Philip R., Stone, Howard A., Koglin, Jason E., Liang, Mengning, Aquila, Andrew L., Robinson, Joseph S., Gumerlock, Karl L., Blaj, Gabriel, Sierra, Raymond G., Boutet, Sebastien, Guillet, Serge A. H., Curtis, Robin H., Vetter, Sharon L., Loos, Henrik, Turner, James L., and Decker, Franz -Josef. Mon . "Negative pressures and spallation in water drops subjected to nanosecond shock waves". United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.6b00687. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1295510.
@article{osti_1295510,
title = {Negative pressures and spallation in water drops subjected to nanosecond shock waves},
author = {Stan, Claudiu A. and Willmott, Philip R. and Stone, Howard A. and Koglin, Jason E. and Liang, Mengning and Aquila, Andrew L. and Robinson, Joseph S. and Gumerlock, Karl L. and Blaj, Gabriel and Sierra, Raymond G. and Boutet, Sebastien and Guillet, Serge A. H. and Curtis, Robin H. and Vetter, Sharon L. and Loos, Henrik and Turner, James L. and Decker, Franz -Josef},
abstractNote = {Most experimental studies of cavitation in liquid water at negative pressures reported cavitation at tensions significantly smaller than those expected for homogeneous nucleation, suggesting that achievable tensions are limited by heterogeneous cavitation. We generated tension pulses with nanosecond rise times in water by reflecting cylindrical shock waves, produced by X-ray laser pulses, at the internal surface of drops of water. Depending on the X-ray pulse energy, a range of cavitation phenomena occurred, including the rupture and detachment, or spallation, of thin liquid layers at the surface of the drop. When spallation occurred, we evaluated that negative pressures below –100 MPa were reached in the drops. As a result, we model the negative pressures from shock reflection experiments using a nucleation-and-growth model that explains how rapid decompression could outrun heterogeneous cavitation in water, and enable the study of stretched water close to homogeneous cavitation pressures.},
doi = {10.1021/acs.jpclett.6b00687},
journal = {Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters},
number = 11,
volume = 7,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon May 16 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Mon May 16 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}

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