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Bubble acoustics: from whales to other worlds

Bubble acoustics: from whales to other worlds
Bubble acoustics: from whales to other worlds
Gas bubbles in liquids have an extraordinary ability to interact with sound fields. They are potent generators, absorbers, and scatterers of sound, and can have a profound effect upon the sound speed (changing it on subsecond timescales by a factor of 2 or more under breaking ocean waves, for example). Bubbles generate the song of a babbling brook, and ocean sounds that help us understand the global carbon budget. Bubbles activated by ultrasound can assist industrial processing, or aid medical diagnosis and therapy. This Rayleigh Medal Lecture paper records the work I have undertaken to understand and exploit them.
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Institute of Acoustics
Leighton, Timothy
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Leighton, Timothy
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Leighton, Timothy (2014) Bubble acoustics: from whales to other worlds. In Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics, Birmingham, UK, 15-16 October 2014. Institute of Acoustics. pp. 58-86 .

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Abstract

Gas bubbles in liquids have an extraordinary ability to interact with sound fields. They are potent generators, absorbers, and scatterers of sound, and can have a profound effect upon the sound speed (changing it on subsecond timescales by a factor of 2 or more under breaking ocean waves, for example). Bubbles generate the song of a babbling brook, and ocean sounds that help us understand the global carbon budget. Bubbles activated by ultrasound can assist industrial processing, or aid medical diagnosis and therapy. This Rayleigh Medal Lecture paper records the work I have undertaken to understand and exploit them.

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Published date: October 2014
Organisations: Inst. Sound & Vibration Research

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Local EPrints ID: 370570
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/370570
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ORCID for Timothy Leighton: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-1649-8750

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Date deposited: 29 Oct 2014 16:31
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 02:45

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