Experimental Fluid Dynamics
Cavitation, Biophysics, and Microfluidics

Asst Prof Claus-Dieter Ohl
School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (SPMS)
Division of Physics and Applied Physics (PAP)
Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore
Adjunct Prof with IHPC, A*STAR

Cavitation Nucleation

A particle being exposed to a single low pressure cycle developes a large cavity to its right and is shot to the left. The size of the particle is around 80um. The recording speed is 1 million frames/s, thus the particle gains a velocity of 40m/s!

A powerpoint presentation with some movies is available for download. Also we have published an article some time ago.