At 10:33 pm 31/10/2005 -0600, Richard wrote: >> Jones wrote.. >> Is the shape of the cavitation bubble in sonofusion >> always a torus or flattened-bubble?
> Here is a link, > > http://www.vor-env.com/ultrasonic.shtml > > The bubble appears to be torus shaped.. but.. ....but if you read the plausible explanation at where they presumably "borrowed" the picture..... http://exploration.grc.nasa.gov/6712/overviews/BDiSL_over.html .....it's not really a torus but a bubble which has collapsed subsequent to the distortion resulting from impinging upon a surface. Frank
