BACKGROUND Cerebral air microembolization (CAM) is a frequent side effect of diagnostic or therapeutic interventions. Besides reduction of the amount of bubbles, filter systems in the clinical setting may also lead to a dispersion of large gas bubbles and therefore to an increase of the gas-liquid-endothelium interface. We evaluated the production and application of different strictly defined b...

The transport of long gas bubbles, suspended in liquid, through symmetric bifurcations, is investigated experimentally and theoretically as a model of cardiovascular gas bubble transport in air embolism and gas embolotherapy. The relevant dimensionless parameters in the models match the corresponding values for arteries and arterioles. The effects of roll angle (the angle the plane of the bifur...

Basaltic activity is the most common class of volcanism on Earth, characterized by magmas of sufficiently low viscosities such that bubbles can move independently of the melt. Following exsolution, spherical bubbles can then expand and/or coalesce to generate larger bubbles of spherical-cap or Taylor bubble (slug) morphologies. Puffing and strombolian explosive activity are driven by the bursti...

Measurement of the bubble size distribution in a liquid is very important for cavitation inception studies. In this paper we describe an acoustics based device, the ABS Acoustic Bubble Spectrometer that measures bubble size distributions and void fractions in liquids based on the measurement of sound propagation through the tested liquid. Short monochromatic bursts of sound at different freque...

In this research, the effect of bubble surface area flux, Sb, and particle size on flotation rate constant, k, of pyrite (FeS2) particles was studied using bubble-particle interactions. The bubble-particle collision, attachment and detachment efficiencies were calculated under different flow regimes. The k increased with increase in the collision efficiency and decreas...

Basaltic activity is the most common class of volcanism on Earth, characterized by magmas 12 of sufficiently low viscosities such that bubbles can move independently of the melt. Following 13 exsolution, spherical bubbles can then expand and/or coalesce to generate larger bubbles of 14 spherical-cap or Taylor bubble (slug) morphologies. Puffing and strombolian explosive activity are 15 driven b...

For altitude decompressions, we hypothesized that reported onset times of limb decompression illness (DCI) pain symptoms follow a probability distribution related to total bubble volume [V(b.)(t)] as a function of time. Furthermore, we hypothesized that the probability of ever experiencing DCI during a decompression is associated with the cumulative volume of bubbles formed. To test these hypot...

We study the evolution of multiple supernova (SN) explosions inside a pre-exiting cavity blown by winds from massive progenitor stars. Hydrodynamic simulations in one-dimensional spherical geometry, including radiative cooling and thermal conduction, are carried out to follow first the development of the wind-blown bubble during the main sequence and then the evolution of the SN-driven bubble. ...

I have read with great interest the article from Potger et al. (1), and commend the authors for the contribution they make in this investigation. While congratulating them on their work, I also raise the following points to continue what I believe is much needed discussion on the very important topic of gas-bubble transmission during extracorporeal circulation (ECC). To build an appropriate con...