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Shock Focussing Effect in Medical Science and Sonoluminescence

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Editors:
  1. Ramesh C. Srivastava

    1. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur, India

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  2. Dieter Leutloff

    1. Fachbereich 6, Mechanik/Labor, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

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  3. Kazuyoshi Takayama

    1. Institute of Fluid Center, Tohoku University, Sendai 980, Japan

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  4. Hans Grönig

    1. Stosswellenlabor, RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

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  • The articles presented in this unique book are of great interest to the medical doctors, technical researchers of lithotripsy, gasdynamicists and the scientists working in sonoluminescence.

  • Sonoluminescence is a rapidly growing field and this applies especially to its applications in medicine.

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-X
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  2. The Shock-Wave Theory of Sonoluminescence

    • P. H. Roberts, C. C. Wu
    Pages 1-27

  3. Upscaling Single-Bubble Sonoluminescence

    • Sascha Hilgenfeldt, Detlef Lohse
    Pages 29-43

  4. Shock and Thermal Waves Emanating from a Sonoluminescing Gas Bubble

    • Ho-Young Kwak, Yoon-Pyo Lee
    Pages 45-71

  5. Destructive Action of Cavitation Bubbles Collapsing Near Boundaries

    • Y. Tomita, A. Shima
    Pages 73-109

  6. Shock Focusing in Sonoluminescing Gas Bubbles

    • R. C. Srivastava, D. Leutloff
    Pages 111-119

  7. Focusing of Shock Waves and Their Applications to Medicine

    • Kazuyoshi Takayama
    Pages 121-149

  8. Mechanics of Stone Fragmentation in Extracorporeal Shock-Wave Lithotripsy

    • C. J. Chuong
    Pages 151-178

  9. Pressure Pulses in Extracorporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy and Extracorporeal Shock Wave Pain Therapy

    • Friedrich Ueberle
    Pages 179-210

  10. Extracorporeal Shock Waves: Bioeffects and Mechanisms of Action

    • Michael Delius
    Pages 211-226

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 227-227
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In 1942 Guderley investigated the behaviour of the typical parameters near the axis when he was studying the focusing of cylindrical shock waves by solving the partial differential equations using the similarity method. He pre­ dicted an infinitely large pressure and temperature at the axis of convergence. Since then many theoretical and experimental studies have been performed on shock focusing as an energy source for the generation of very high pressures and temperatures. Many experimental investigations confirmed the idea of Guderley that at the centre of convergence extremely high pressures and temperatures can be obtained. At the Technical University of Darmstadt we performed a numerical exper­ iment to investigate the shock-focusing phenomenon, and many test problems were solved using the Rusanov scheme. At the centre of convergence we ob­ tained extremely high pressures and temperatures. The results of these inves­ tigations were compared with the experimental work done at the Max Planck Institute for Fluid Dynamics Research in Gottingen. The three-dimensional time-dependent shock wave which was created by a centred gas volume under high pressure interacts with the plane walls of the cavity and leads to a focusing effect after the explosion. The symmetry-preserving character of the invari­ ant difference scheme under use was proved numerically by calculation over a long interval of time. A test run of our investigation was also made at the Institute of Computational Fluid Dynamics in Tokyo, Japan.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur, India

    Ramesh C. Srivastava

  • Fachbereich 6, Mechanik/Labor, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

    Dieter Leutloff

  • Institute of Fluid Center, Tohoku University, Sendai 980, Japan

    Kazuyoshi Takayama

  • Stosswellenlabor, RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

    Hans Grönig

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Shock Focussing Effect in Medical Science and Sonoluminescence

  • Editors: Ramesh C. Srivastava, Dieter Leutloff, Kazuyoshi Takayama, Hans Grönig

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-05161-0

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2003

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-42514-4Published: 07 January 2003

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-07636-7Published: 07 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-05161-0Published: 14 March 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 226

  • Topics: Acoustics, Fluid- and Aerodynamics, Classical Mechanics, Ultrasound, Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering, Urology

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