Abstract

In the various new fields such as aerospace engineering and so forth, cryogenic liquids have been very important objectives of research with two-phase/cavitation phenomena in relation to their transportation and preservation. Since the latent heat of the cryogenic liquid are smaller than usual liquids as water and the phenomena in cryogenic liquids occur near the equilibrium boiling temperature, the behavior of vapor bubbles in cryogenic liquids may be different from that in usual liquids. There have been, however, only a few experimental reports on cryogenic cavitation phenomena, especially on the laser induced cavitation bubbles.^1,2

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