Visualization of Acoustic Waves and Cavitation in Ultrasonic Water Flow

Polymerization of Silica in Water-Effect of Ultrasonic Waves on Coagulation and Sedimentation

Polymerization rates of silica at various concentrations and pHs have been studied via nephelometry. The ability and potency of ultrasonic radiation on the coagulation process in aqueous samples with and without silica colloidal particles have been extensively investigated. Factors affecting the rate and filtration volume such as silica concentration, time of radiation, temperature, and fre...

Acoustic Emission Monitoring for Ultrasonic Cavitation Based Dispersion Process

In the manufacturing of micro/nanocomposite materials, micro/nanoparticles need to be dispersed evenly into the base materials. However, due to their high surface-to-volume ratio and high surface energy, the micro/nanoparticles tend to agglomerate and cluster together. Ultrasonic cavitation is effective to disperse micro/nanoparticles. However, works on correlating the cavitation parameters wit...

Ultrasonic emissions reveal individual cavitation bubbles in water-stressed wood.

Under drought conditions, the xylem of trees that conducts ascending sap produces ultrasonic emissions whose exact origin is not clear. We introduce a new method to record simultaneously both acoustic events and optical observation of the xylem conduits within slices of wood that were embedded in a transparent material setting a hydric stress. In this article, we resolved the rapid development ...

Noise Reduction in Butterfly Valve Cavitation by Semicircular Fins and Visualization of Cavitation Flow

Investigation of the Flow and Cavitation in a Butterfly Valve

Since knowledge on hydrodynamic torque of a butterfly valve is very important for butterfly valve design, its hydrodynamic torque is investigated in this paper. In reality, the investigation of the loss coefficient and torque from some experiments will take a long time and a lot of money. This paper presents a statistical study of the flow past the butterfly valve in a static analysis using com...