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Surface motion induced by the interaction of pulsed laser radiation with highly absorbing dielectric fluids

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2006

Konstantin A. Naugol'nykh ,
Oleg V. Puchenkov ,
Victor V. Zosimov  and
Alexander E. Pashin
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Abstract

The disturbances on the free surface of dielectric fluids resulting from intense laser heating of their boundary layer are studied theoretically and experimentally. The heating is accompanied by pronounced evaporation from the surface and thereby leads to a recoil pressure momentum applied to the surface. For small values of total momentum transferred to the fluid, the low-amplitude initially hollow-like displacement of the surface in the impact zone decays to produce linear gravity–capillary waves (GCW) spreading out on the surface. This regime is treated analytically and the results obtained are compared with experiments involving weakly viscous (water, ethanol) and highly viscous (glycerol) liquids. An experimental arrangement for remote generation and subsequent detection of probe GCW-packets is given. The evolution of broadband GCW-disturbances on clean and surfactant-contaminated water surfaces are described. Results of GCW-attenuation spectrum measurements on clean water surfaces and on film-covered surfaces are presented.

High total recoil momentum values give rise to substantially nonlinear surface motion: after a short transient stage the surface takes the shape of a hemisphere expanding into the liquid, and later the liquid above the hemisphere closes up to form a cavity and slow down the expansion. For this regime the dynamics of the hemisphere expansion are determined and satisfactory agreement with experimental data obtained with the shadowgraph technique is established. Consistency of theory and experiment allowed the determination of the total recoil pressure momentum and its surface distribution.

In the intermediate case of moderate values of recoil momentum, the nonlinear evolution of broadband GCW-packets on clean and surfactant-contaminated water surfaces is investigated experimentally.

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 250 , May 1993 , pp. 385 - 421
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© 1993 Cambridge University Press

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