Shock-Induced Bubble Collapse versus Rayleigh Collapse

This paper compares two physical mechanisms for the collapse of a bubble near a rigid wall: a traveling shock-induced collapse and a Rayleigh-like collapse due to a uniform rise of the pressure around the bubble. A multi-material compressible flow solver capable of handling material interfaces under high pressures is used to investigate these two scenarios for different levels of the driving pressure ranging from 1 MPa to 400 MPa. The two mechanisms are differentiated on the basis of the resulting bubble dynamics, the reentrant jet velocity, and the pressures imparted to the wall.