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ULTRASONICS SONOCHEMISTRY
Volume 17, Issue 1, Pages 258-265Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ultsonch.2009.05.014
Keywords
Cavitation; Reaction; Multiphase; Lattice Boltzmann Model; Stochastic
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- Mathematical, Information, and Computational Sciences Division
- Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research
- US Department of Energy
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We introduce a model of cavitation based on the multiphase Lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) that allows for coupling between the hydrodynamics of a collapsing cavity and supported solute chemical species. We demonstrate that this model can also be coupled to deterministic or stochastic chemical reactions. In a two-species model of chemical reactions (with a major and a minor species). the major difference observed between the deterministic and stochastic reactions takes the form of random fluctuations in concentration of the minor species. We demonstrate that advection associated with the hydrodynamics of a collapsing cavity leads to highly inhomogeneous concentration of solutes. In turn these inhomogeneities in concentration may lead to significant increase in concentration-dependent reaction rates and can result in a local enhancement in the production of minor species. Published by Elsevier B.V.
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