Abstract:
Demonstrations have played a crucial role for scientific learning, helping students gaining better understanding supplementary to the normal lectures. In this thesis, we study the underwater acoustic standing waves in spherical geometry and demonstrate its effect by trapping an air bubble inside a water-filled flask. The impact of the primary Bjerknes force on the bubble is explained.In practice, in order to capture a bubble at the center of the flask, a specific acoustic resonance frequency of the flask and the electrical resonance of the driving frequency must be matched to increase the driving power. The fundamental resonance frequency, 100100-mode, is used in this demonstration, corresponding to 20.54-21.62 kHz. An RLC circuit is employed to drive the transducer pair. To match the electrical frequency with that of acoustic resonance, an inductor is wound around a ferrite core to obtain the appropriate value of inductance. Following the given procedure, a bubble is stably trapped at the center of the flask. The demonstration opens for further developments such as investigating other trapping modes or geometry-dependence for capturing.
WALAILAK UNIVERSITY. CENTER FOR LIBRARY RESOURCES AND EDUCATIONAL MEDIA