Cavitation and Inhomogeneities in Underwater Acoustics : Proceedings of the First International Conference, Göttingen, Fed. Rep. Of Germany, July 9–11, 1979

Front Matter....Pages I-XI Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Cavitation and Coherent Optics....Pages 3-12 On the Dynamics of Non-Spherical Bubbles....Pages 13-22 Oscillation and Collapse of a Cavitation Bubble in the Vicinity of a Two-Liquid Interface....Pages 23-29 Experimental Investigation of Bubble Collapse at Laser-Induced Breakdown in Liquids....Pages 30-34 Application of High Speed Holocinematographical Methods in Cavitation Research....Pages 35-41 Bubble Collapse Studies at a Million Frames per Second....Pages 42-46 Holographic Generation of Multi-Bubble Systems....Pages 47-53 The Dynamics and Acoustic Emission of Bubbles Driven by a Sound Field....Pages 54-63 Free and Forced Oscillations of Spherical Gas Bubbles and Their Translational Motion in a Compressible Fluid....Pages 64-71 Acoustic Cavitation and Bubble Dynamics Due to a Tension Wave....Pages 72-78 Some New Results on Cavitation Threshold Prediction and Bubble Dynamics....Pages 79-83 Acoustic Cavitation Thresholds in Water....Pages 84-89 The Influence of Modest Overpressures on the Persistence of Air Bubbles in Water....Pages 90-94 On the Collapse of Cavity Clusters in Flow Cavitation....Pages 95-100 Effect of Polarization on Electric Pulses Produced by Cavitation Bubbles....Pages 101-107 Cavitation Effects at Megahertz Frequencies....Pages 108-112 Nonlinear Sound-Scattering by Small Bubbles....Pages 113-118 Dynamics of a Cylindrical Cavity in a Boundless Compressible Liquid....Pages 119-124 Front Matter....Pages 125-125 Sound and Shock Waves in Bubbly Liquids....Pages 127-140 On the Amplification of Modulated Acoustic Waves in Gas-Liquid Mixtures....Pages 141-150 Front Matter....Pages 125-125 Self-Induced Transparency and Frequency Conversion Effects for Acoustic Waves in Water Containing Gas Bubbles....Pages 151-156 Pressure Waves in a Liquid with Gas or Vapour Bubbles....Pages 157-163 Dynamics of a Liquid with Gas Bubbles During Interaction with Short Large-Amplitude Pulses....Pages 164-169 Shock Wave Transformation in Bubbly Liquids....Pages 170-176 Relaxation Effects in the Propagation of Underwater Shock Waves....Pages 177-183 Front Matter....Pages 185-185 Acoustical Bubble Spectrometry at Sea....Pages 187-193 Acoustical Scattering from Near-Surface Bubble Layers....Pages 194-204 Density of Air-Bubbles Below the Sea Surface, Theory and Experiments....Pages 205-210 Acoustic Measurements of the Gas Bubble Spectrum in Water....Pages 211-218 Determination of Bubble Size Spectra by Digital Processing of Holograms....Pages 219-224 Determination of Bubble Sizes by Far Field Diffraction of Photographic Recordings....Pages 225-229 Complementing Discussion Contribution to the Papers of H.Medwin, P.Schippers, and A.Løvik....Pages 230-233 Front Matter....Pages 235-235 Acoustical Detection of Astrophysical Neutrinos in the Ocean....Pages 237-258 Front Matter....Pages 259-259 Inhomogeneities in Underwater Acoustics....Pages 261-271 Sound Propagation in an Inhomogeneous Ocean....Pages 272-280 Acoustic Fluctuations in the Ocean....Pages 281-293 Mesoscale Inhomogeneities and Turbulence in Ocean Acoustics....Pages 294-307 On the Influence of Stochastic Sound Speed Variations on Acoustic Transmission Loss in Shallow Water....Pages 308-314 The Inverse Backscattering Problem — a Different Approach....Pages 315-318 Back Matter....Pages 319-322