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The Acoustic Bubble
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by T. G. Leighton
Sales Rank: 1045025
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$118.68
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on 12-29-2007.
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Paperback: 613 pages
Publisher: Academic Press; New Ed edition June 3, 1997
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0124419216
ISBN-13: 978-0124419216
Product Dimensions:
9.1 x 6.1 x 1.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
Product Review
"One can only effervesce with praise upon perusing The Acoustic Bubble, by T.G. Leighton. Here is a volume that is both comprehensive and readable--that informs the expert and the novice.The reader is well served by the authors careful attention to detail, his extensive table of symbols (14 pages!), his excellent use of photographs and graphics, an extraordinarily comprehensive bibliography, and, most of all, by his lucid physical descriptions of phenomena not only having to do with bubbles but also with a variety of physical systems that are related to foundations of the sciences that one must understand if one is to apply them to the bubble problem.The Acoustic Bubble is not only interesting reading; it is an extraordinarily useful reference for those working in or planning to work in the field.Theres no trouble with this Bubble."
--JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA
"The strength of this book lies in its effortless and enjoyable coverage of a wide swathe of rather intimidating literature and its unified mathematical approach.undoubtedly a major contribution to the field by an accomplished teacher, scientist and enthusiast."
--PHYSICS IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY
"There is no doubt that this is the most comprehensive and accessible text on acoustic cavitation available.This is a required reference for scientists and, in particular, medical physicists interested in becoming acquainted with the mathematical description of bubble dynamics and the wealth of associated physical phenomena. It is user friendly, thorough in its treatment of the theory and encyclopedic in its coverage of the experimental literature. I have no doubts that it will become a standard text."
--SCOPE (THE JOURNAL OF THE IPSM)
Product Review
"One can only effervesce with praise upon perusing The Acoustic Bubble, by T.G. Leighton. Here is a volume that is both comprehensive and readable--that informs the expert and the novice.The reader is well served by the authors careful attention to detail, his extensive table of symbols (14 pages!), his excellent use of photographs and graphics, an extraordinarily comprehensive bibliography, and, most of all, by his lucid physical descriptions of phenomena not only having to do with bubbles but also with a variety of physical systems that are related to foundations of the sciences that one must understand if one is to apply them to the bubble problem.The Acoustic Bubble is not only interesting reading; it is an extraordinarily useful reference for those working in or planning to work in the field.Theres no trouble with this Bubble."
--JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA
"The strength of this book lies in its effortless and enjoyable coverage of a wide swathe of rather intimidating literature and its unified mathematical approach.undoubtedly a major contribution to the field by an accomplished teacher, scientist and enthusiast."
--PHYSICS IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY
"There is no doubt that this is the most comprehensive and accessible text on acoustic cavitation available.This is a required reference for scientists and, in particular, medical physicists interested in becoming acquainted with the mathematical description of bubble dynamics and the wealth of associated physical phenomena. It is user friendly, thorough in its treatment of the theory and encyclopedic in its coverage of the experimental literature. I have no doubts that it will become a standard text."
--SCOPE (THE JOURNAL OF THE IPSM)
Owner Reviews, Ratings, Comments and Criticism
This is a fine book about an important topic in acoustics. If the field of acoustics is like a bunch of fine wines, this is the champagne! Acoustic bubbles have many manifestations. These include clinical ultrasound as well as ocean acoustics. It is worthwhile for someone who wishes to be an expert on one of these topics to become familiar with some other applications the study of acoustic bubbles. The first chapter covers the fundamentals of waves, sound, and wavefronts. Of course, special attention is placed on sound in solid and liquid media. And we also learn about the generation of ultrasound, simulated sound fields, and nonlinear effects in underwater ultrasound beams. The second chapter teaches us about bubbles. We learn about the tensile strength of liquids, so we'll know what it takes to make them cavitate. And we learn about Rayleigh collapse, so we'll know what it takes to produce decavitation. Next, we review (I hope it is a review!) fluid dynamics, and look at the problem of a rigid sphere moving through a liquid. In the third chapter, we get to a powerful analogy to a bubble in a liquid, namely a bob of a specified mass attached to a spring. After a quick review of unforced oscillators, we get to the Minnaert frequency (the natural frequency of a spherical gas bubble in a liquid for low-amplitude simple harmonic motion). It's interesting to see if we can thus approximate the sounds of brooks, waterfalls, rainfall, or the ocean. The next chapter gets us to a discussion of the interaction between a bubble and the sound wave that can drive it into oscillation. We still use the analogy of the bob on a spring, but now we're dealing with a driven oscillator (the author assures us that this is a better approximation that trying to predict the outcome of a horse race by assuming a spherically symmetrical horse). We learn about acoustic emissions from these bubbles, chaotic oscillations of bubbles, and so forth. We're still basically dealing with individual bubbles, of course. The final chapter deals with the real behavior of acoustic bubble systems. That includes topics such as detection of bubbles, bubble motion and stabilization, and use of bubbles in ultrasonic surgery. And, of course, sonoluminescence, for which there is a discussion of mechanisms as well as what is now a particularly, um, hot topic, temperatures of imploding bubbles. I enjoyed reading this book. I'll never listen to champagne the same way again.
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