Acoustic cavitation 42 years after the Briggs, Johnson, and Mason paper

Warren Mason was one of the early pioneers of high-power ultrasonics who studied its effects on liquids [Briggs et al., J. Acoust. Soc. Am 19, 664–677 (1947)]. One of these effects is acoustically induced bubble activity. Such activity can be desirable, as in ultrasonic cleaning, or undesirable, as with cavitation on sonar transducers. This talk will review the basic physics underlying the onset of cavitation, the dynamics of bubble motion, and the effects caused by cavitation, with emphasis on how to optimize or minimize these effects, depending on the application. [Much of this work has been supported by the Office of Naval Research and by the National Institutes of Health through Grant 1R01CA39374.]