Liquids Under Negative Pressure : Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Liquids Under Negative Pressure Budapest, Hungary 23–25 February 2002

It is possible to "stretch" a liquid and, when suitably prepared, liquids are capable of sustaining substantial levels of tension, often for significant periods of time. These negative pressure states are metastable but can last for days - long enough for substantial experimental investigation. This volume is a review of recent and current research into the behaviour of liquids under negative pressure. Part I deals with the thermodynamics of stretched liquids. Part II discusses the physical and chemical behaviour of liquids under negative pressure. Part III contains papers on the effect of negative pressure on the solidification of a liquid. Part IV is devoted to stretched helium and Part V discusses cavitation in various stretched liquids. Part VI deals with the effect of foreign substances on cavitation. Front Matter....Pages i-xvi Limits of Stability for Liquids Under Tension....Pages 1-12 Limiting Superheat of Aqueous Solutions at Negative Pressures....Pages 13-22 Classical Thermodynamics of States with Negative Absolute Temperature or With Negative Absolute Pressure....Pages 23-31 Limiting Tensions For Liquids and Glasses from Laboratory and MD Studies....Pages 33-46 Investigation of the Thermodynamic Properties of a Polarizable Water Model in a Wide Range of Pressures Around the Temperature of Maximum Density....Pages 47-57 Water at Positive and Negative Pressures....Pages 59-67 The Thermophysical Properties of Liquids on the Melting Line at Negative Pressures....Pages 69-80 Liquid-Liquid Phase Equilibria in Binary Mixtures Under Negative Pressure....Pages 81-94 Measuring the Properties of Liquids and Liquid Mixtures at Absolute Negative Pressures....Pages 95-108 Limiting Tensile Strength of Capillary-Condensed Liquids....Pages 109-115 On the Tricritical Point of the Isotropic — Nematic Transition in a Rod-Like Mesogen Hidden in the Negative Pressure Region....Pages 117-125 Negative Pressure Development During Crystallization of Polymers....Pages 127-136 Cavitation During Isothermal Crystallization of Isotactic Polypropylene and Poly(Methylene Oxide)....Pages 137-144 The Limits of Metastability of Liquid Helium....Pages 145-160 Cavitation in 3 He- 4 he Liquid Mixtures....Pages 161-174 A Quantum Monte Carlo Study of the Negative Pressure Regime in Quantum Liquids....Pages 175-186 Nucleation of Bubbles on Electrons in Liquid Helium....Pages 187-199 Quantum Statistics of Metastable Liquid Helium....Pages 201-214 Acoustic Cavitation Thresholds of Ocean Water....Pages 215-230 Cavitation in Liquids by Classical Nucleation Theory and Molecular Dynamics Simulations....Pages 231-242 A Study of Cavitation Phenomena Using an Atomic Force Microscope....Pages 243-254 Cavitation Thresholds, Free Surface and Cavity Cluster Dynamics in Liquids at Shock Wave Reflection....Pages 255-270 Relaxation Effects and Disintegration Problems of Cavitating Liquids at Pulse Loading....Pages 271-283 Measurements of the Cavitation Threshold of Liquids Under Dynamic Stressing by Pulses of Tension....Pages 285-300 Negative Pressure Tail of a Reflected Pressure Pulse: A Lattice Boltzmann Study....Pages 301-306 Ultrasonic Cavitation in Freon at Room Temperature....Pages 307-313 Dependence on Kinds of Impurity Gases in Metals of Negative Pressures in Water/Metal Berthelot Tube Systems....Pages 315-325 Heterogeneous Nucleation, Influence of Heterophase Fluctuations on the Cavitation Strength, and the Supercooling of Liquids with Phase Inclusions....Pages 327-340 Liquids can be studied in superheated, supercooled and stretched states where they are metastable [1] with respect to boiling, freezing or cavitation.